Morinaga Milk Industry Co., Ltd.

Noriyuki Iwabuchi

Kanetada Shimizu

Toshitaka Odamaki

Tomohiro Tanaka

Yohei Sato

Sachiko Takahashi

Mai Murata

Tatsuya Ehara

Hirohisa Izumi

Noritoshi Takahashi

Akari Hiraku

Provided is a method that makes it possible to promote proliferation of probiotics having a low ability to assimilate human milk oligosaccharides (HMOs), in the presence of HMOs. A nutritional composition is described that includes bacteria belonging to, one or more types of probiotics having a low ability to assimilate human milk oligosaccharides, and human milk oligosaccharides. The nutritional composition as described herein may be suitably used for foods/drinks, medicines, quasi-drugs, feeds, and the like.

Nutritional composition, food/drink composition using nutritional composition, and modified milk powder using nutritional composition

Provided is a composition that may be used for a specific use application, such as a composition for enhancing a breast milk component. A composition containing a bacterium of the genusas an active ingredient is described.

Composition for enhancing breast milk component

A composition includes cells ofMCC1849 (NITE BP-01633). The composition is in the form of a pharmaceutical composition, a food, a drink, or a feed. The pharmaceutical composition can be used for treating an inflammatory disease, ulcer, food allergies, bronchial asthma, urticaria, pollinosis, anaphylactic shock or an opportunistic infection.

Lactic acid bacterium, drug, food or drink, and feed which contain the lactic acid bacterium

A method for prophylaxis or treatment of a disease includes administering an an effective amount of an agent that contains cells ofMCC1849 (NITE BP-01633) to a subject in need of such prophylaxis or treatment. The disease can be one or more of an inflammatory disease, ulcer, food allergies, bronchial asthma, urticaria, pollinosis, anaphylactic shock or an opportunistic infection.

TheMCC1849 (NITE BP-01633) strain, which has a high IL-12 production-promoting action, is used as an ingredient of a drug, food or drink, or feed used for promotion of IL-12 production, immunostimulation, antivirus, or the like.

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Noriyuki Iwabuchi