Probiotics appear to mitigate pancreatitis: Surprising hypothetical mechanism warrants further investigation
Thursday, November 17, 2011 - 09:00
in Biology & Nature
(Medical Xpress) -- A probiotic treatment appears to mitigate pancreatitis in an animal model, leading to a new hypothesis of how probiotics may act, according to a paper in the November Applied and Environmental Microbiology. The bacterial species most closely associated with improvement in health was discovered for the first time in the course of this research.