Mead Johnson Nutrition Company

Other

Optibiotix Limited

Nestec S.a.

United States of America, As Represented by the Secretary of Agriculture

Robert Rastall

Glenn R Gibson

Robert J McMahon

Stephen Patrick O'Hara

Anna-Marja Aura

Renia Gemmell

Maria Saarela

Bryon W Petschow

Stephen Patrick O'hara

Alberto Nunez

Arland T Hotchkiss

Byron W Petschow

Jonathan R Rhoades

Glen R Gibson

Stephen P O'hara

The present invention relates to a symbiotic composition comprising a probiotic bacterial strain and a prebiotic growth medium which is specific to the growth of the probiotic bacterial strain, wherein the bacterial strain is capable of producing the same growth medium by reverse enzyme reaction. The present invention also relates to methods of producing and screening for such compositions.

Composition and methods of screening

The present invention relates to a synbiotic composition comprising a probiotic bacterial strain and a prebiotic growth medium which is specific to the growth of the probiotic bacterial strain, wherein the bacterial strain is capable of producing the same growth medium by reverse enzyme reaction. The present invention also relates to methods of producing and screening for such compositions.

The present invention relates to a prebiotic composition comprising a microbially produced oligosaccharide, wherein the oligosaccharide is characterized by being selective for a pre-determined probiotic bacterial strain and also capable of being produced by the pre-determined probiotic bacteria by reverse enzyme action. The present invention also relates to methods of screening a composition suitable for use as a prebiotic and methods for screening of prebiotics for incorporation into synbiotic formulations.

The present invention is directed to a novel method for increasing the production of acetate, decreasing the production of butyrate, increasing the population and species of beneficial bacteria and slowing the rate of fermentation of prebiotics within the gut of a formula-fed infant. The method comprises administration of a therapeutically effective amount of PDX to the infant.

Nutritional composition having prebiotic

A method of promoting the growth of beneficial bacteria in the gut of a human in need thereof, which involves administering to a human a composition containing an effective amount of Ara-(1-5)-(Ara)-(1-5)-Ara as a prebiotic, where n=0-18.

Methods of promoting the growth of beneficial bacteria in the gut

Method for simulating the functional attributes of human milk oligosaccharides in formula-fed infants

Method for simulating the functional attributes of human milk oligosaccharides

The present invention concerns compositions comprising a saccharide for the inhibition of pathogen adhesion to mammalian cells.

Compositions comprising oligosaccharides

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Robert Rastall