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Postbiotics : health and industry /

Postbiotics: Health and Industry provides a detailed overview on the fundamentals, biological and therapeutic properties, safety, and application of postbiotics in health and industry. Sections cover the fundamentals of postbiotics, which include insights on probiotic microorganisms, postbiotics, an...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: ScienceDirect (Online service)
Other Authors: Dharumadurai, Dhanasekaran (Editor), Halami, Prakash M. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; San Diego, CA : Academic Press, an imprint of Elsevier, [2025]
Series:Developments in applied microbiology and biotechnology.
Subjects:
Food > Microbiology.
Food Microbiology
Aliments > Microbiologie.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Front Cover
  • Postbiotics
  • Postbiotics: Health and Industry
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Contributors
  • About the editors
  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • 1 -Fundamentals of postbiotics
  • 1
  • Postbiotics and host-microbe interactions
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Classification of postbiotics
  • 2.1 Cell-free supernatants
  • 2.2 Exopolysaccharides
  • 2.3 Short-chain fatty acids
  • 2.4 Enzymes
  • 2.5 Bacteriocins
  • 3. Health benefits of postbiotics
  • 4. Postbiotics mechanism of action
  • 5. Postbiotics and the microbiome
  • 6. The impact of postbiotics on host-microbiota interactions
  • 7. Effects of postbiotics on microbial community interactions
  • 8. Future perceptive and conclusion
  • References
  • 2
  • An insight into probiotic microorganisms
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Human gut microbiota
  • 3. Gut microbiota (GM) composition in diseases
  • 4. The biotics family: Current knowledge in diseases