Gaba-producing culturable bacteria and use for improving health
AssigneesUniversity College Cork, National University of Ireland, Cork, Teagasc, The Agriculture and Food Development Authority
InventorsPaul Ross, Catherine Stanton
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Abstract
A composition for use in a method of regulating or treating a metabolic disease or a symptom thereof, the composition comprising an isolated bacteria Lactobacillus brevis (DPC6108) deposited with the National Collection of Industrial and Marine Bacteria Limited (NCIMB) on 28 Nov. 2011 and accorded the accession number NCIMB 41903.
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A method of treating a metabolic disease or a symptom thereof, or a method for promoting diversity of the gut microbiota or for treating conditions or cohorts associated with low diversity of the gut microbiota, the method comprising administering a composition comprising an isolated bacteria Lactobacillus brevis DPC6108, or variants thereof.
A method of producing a supernatant or an extract from an isolated Lactobacillus brevis (DPC6108) strain comprising a step of culturing the isolated strain and separating the supernatant from the strain or lysing the cell and separating the cell extract from lysed cell material.
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