Toward an accessible and robust in vitro approach to evaluate bacterial viability in the upper gastro-intestinal tract: A Gastro-Intestinal Digestive Simulator (GIDS) combined with alternative methods to plating
Since the viability throughout the human gastro-intestinal (GI) tract is a key metric to select new probiotics, we aimed to develop an evolutive and robust semi-dynamic model, named Gastro-Intestinal Digestive Simulator (GIDS), mimicking pH variations of the upper GI tract and based on the latest In...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2019-08-01
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Series: | Journal of Functional Foods |
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Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1756464619302828 |