Korea Food Research Institute

Dong Uk Shin

Hee Soon Shin

Young Do Nam

So Lim Park

So Young Lee

Eun Sook Lee

Won Hyong Chung

Eun Ji Song

Dae Woon Choi

Seung Yong Kim

Sun Young Jung

Ji Eun Eom

The present invention relates to a food composition for enhancing respiratory function and improving respiratory diseases, usingKF511 strain; a health functional food comprising the food composition; and a pharmaceutical composition for preventing or treating the respiratory diseases, comprisingstrain, its culture solution, its concentrate, or its dried product, as an active ingredient.

Composition for improving respiratory diseases using Lactobacillus plantarum strain

A novelAO356 strain according to the present disclosure, which is a strain isolated from the human body, has high stability, exhibits the activity of inhibiting adipogenic differentiation in vitro and inducing the differentiation of M1 and M0 macrophages into M2 macrophages, and has excellent activity of alleviating, preventing, or treating obesity, such as the activity of reducing body weight and a reduction in blood lipid concentration through the browning of white fat in animal experiments. Thus, the novel strain of the present disclosure has a low possibility of causing side effects, and therefore, unlike conventional diet functional foods or drugs, which have side effect problems, a diet effect can be exhibited without controlling the dose thereof. Accordingly, the novel strain can be used as a pharmaceutical composition for treating or preventing obesity or a food composition for alleviating or preventing obesity.

AO356 strain having anti-obesity activity and method for preventing, alleviating or treating obesity using the same

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Cheongju-si Chungcheongbuk-do, South Korea

Dong Uk Shin