IMR Press / FBE / Volume 10 / Issue 2 / DOI: 10.2741/E826

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Modifying progression of aging and reducing the risk of neurodegenerative diseases by probiotics and synbiotics

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1 Department of Agricultural and Food Science, Faculty of Science, Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman, Jalan Universiti, Bandar Barat, 31900, Kampar, Perak, Malaysia
2 Department of Biological Science, Faculty of Science, Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman, Jalan Universiti, Bandar Barat, 31900, Kampar, Perak, Malaysia
3 Department of Biomedical Science, Faculty of Science, Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman, Jalan Universiti, Bandar Barat, 31900, Kampar, Perak, Malaysia

*Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.

Front. Biosci. (Elite Ed) 2018, 10(2), 344–351; https://doi.org/10.2741/E826
Published: 1 May 2018
Abstract

Aging, which affects most of the multi-cellular organisms, is due to a potentially complex set of mechanisms that collectively cause a time-dependent decline of physiological functions. Aging restrains longevity and leads to neurodegenerative diseases including dementia, Alzheimer’s disease and lacunar stroke. Human microbiota is now considered to have a strong impact on the progression of aging. The impact of aging and the risk of neurodegenerative diseases can be reduced by using probiotics, or preferably by combining probiotics and prebiotics, also known as synbiotics, that can drastically modify the composition of gut microbiome.

Keywords
Microbiome
Probiotics
Aging
Dementia
Alzheimer’s Disease
Lacunar Stroke
Homocysteine
Synbiotics
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