Nutrition Research
Volume 29, Issue 4 , Pages 281-289 , April 2009

Oral administration of live Bifidobacterium substrains isolated from healthy centenarians enhanced immune function in BALB/c mice

  • Hai-ying Yang

      Affiliations

    • College of Food Science and Nutritional Engineering, China Agricultural University, PO Box 303, Beijing 100083, China
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  • Song-ling Liu

      Affiliations

    • College of Food Science and Nutritional Engineering, China Agricultural University, PO Box 303, Beijing 100083, China
    • ,
  • Salam A. Ibrahim

      Affiliations

    • Food Microbiology and Biotechnology Laboratory, North Carolina A & T State University, Greensboro, NC 27411-1064, USA
    • ,
  • Liang Zhao

      Affiliations

    • College of Food Science and Nutritional Engineering, China Agricultural University, PO Box 303, Beijing 100083, China
    • ,
  • Jing-li Jiang

      Affiliations

    • Meng Niu Dairy (Beijing) Company, Beijing 101107, China
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  • Wen-feng Sun

      Affiliations

    • Food Science College, Xinjiang Agricultural University, Urumchi 830052, China
    • ,
  • Fa-zheng Ren

      Affiliations

    • College of Food Science and Nutritional Engineering, China Agricultural University, PO Box 303, Beijing 100083, China
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +86 10 62736344; fax: +86 10 62736344.

Received 8 January 2009 ,Revised 22 March 2009 ,Accepted 26 March 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.nutres.2009.03.010

Nutrition Research
Volume 29, Issue 4 , Pages 281-289 , April 2009

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