Recent Advances in Probiotics Application on Animal Health
A special issue of Animals (ISSN 2076-2615). This special issue belongs to the section "Animal Nutrition".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2024 | Viewed by 1933
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Probiotics are defined as “mono or mixed strains of living microorganisms which confer a desirable health benefit on the host when used adequately”. Although a cumulative body of evidence shows that probiotics and their metabolites could directly or indirectly impact gut microbiota and host immune functions, there is a lack of understanding of how probiotics influence the gut ecosystem. The proposed modes of action include enhancing epithelial barrier integrity, competitive exclusion, the secretion of bacteriocins, interference with quorum-sensing signaling agents, and immunomodulation. However, the overall efficiency of probiotics is dictated by factors such as the optimal selection of microbial strains; the use of a proper dose; and the species, age, and dynamics of the gastrointestinal (GI) microbial communities of the animal.
This Special Issue welcomes and encourages original research papers (in vivo or in vitro studies) and reviews on the recent advances in probiotics application on animal health—for example, how probiotics affect productivity; health biomarkers; GI health; the beneficial effects of probiotics on GI microbiota; and the effect of probiotics in the quorum-sensing signaling of microbial populations, in host signaling and the immune system, and in pathogen exclusion. The exploration of the role of probiotics could also be captured by modern approaches of metagenomics, meta-transcriptomics, and integrated omics, which enable an understanding of the probiotic mode of action on GI health and host immune function.
Dr. Irida Palamidi
Guest Editor
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- probiotics
- animal health
- microbiota
- immune system
- quorum sensing
- gut
- host signaling
- productivity
- health biomarkers
