Gastroenterology
Volume 128, Issue 3 , Pages 541-551 , March 2005

Lactobacillus and bifidobacterium in irritable bowel syndrome: Symptom responses and relationship to cytokine profiles

  • Liam O’Mahony

      Affiliations

    • Alimentary Pharmabiotic Centre, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland
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  • Jane McCarthy

      Affiliations

    • Alimentary Pharmabiotic Centre, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland
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  • Peter Kelly

      Affiliations

    • Alimentary Pharmabiotic Centre, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland
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  • George Hurley

      Affiliations

    • Procter & Gamble Company, Mason, Ohio
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  • Fangyi Luo

      Affiliations

    • Procter & Gamble Company, Mason, Ohio
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  • Kersang Chen

      Affiliations

    • Procter & Gamble Company, Mason, Ohio
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  • Gerald C. O’Sullivan

      Affiliations

    • Alimentary Pharmabiotic Centre, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland
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  • Barry Kiely

      Affiliations

    • Alimentary Pharmabiotic Centre, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland
    • Alimentary Health Ltd, Kinsale, Cork, Ireland
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  • J. Kevin Collins

      Affiliations

    • Alimentary Pharmabiotic Centre, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland
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  • Fergus Shanahan

      Affiliations

    • Alimentary Pharmabiotic Centre, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland
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  • Eamonn M.M. Quigley

      Affiliations

    • Alimentary Pharmabiotic Centre, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress requests for reprints to: Eamonn M. M. Quigley, MD, Alimentary Pharmabiotic Center, Department of Medicine, Clinical Sciences Building, Cork University Hospital, Cork, Ireland; fax: (353) 21-490-1289.

Received 10 June 2004 ,Accepted 11 November 2004.

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 Supported in part by Science Foundation Ireland in the form of a centre grant (Alimentary Pharmabiotic Centre), the Health Research Board of Ireland, the Higher Education Authority of Ireland, and the European Union (PROGID QLK-2000-00563). The authors are affiliated with a multidepartmental university campus company (Alimentary Health Ltd) that investigates host-flora interactions and the therapeutic manipulation of these interactions in various human and animal disorders. The content of this report was neither influenced nor constrained by this fact.

PII: S0016-5085(04)02155-9

doi: 10.1053/j.gastro.2004.11.050

Gastroenterology
Volume 128, Issue 3 , Pages 541-551 , March 2005