TY - BOOK AU - Nair,G.Balakrish AU - Takeda,Yoshifumi ED - National Institute of Cholera & Enteric Diseases (India) ED - Indian Council of Medical Research. TI - Probiotic foods in health and disease SN - 9781578086986 (pbk.) U1 - 615.329 PY - 2011/// CY - Enfield, NH PB - Science Publishers KW - Probiotics KW - Functional foods N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Probiotic foods today and the future: where science and commerce need to meet / Gregor Reid, Jean Maclaim, Ruben Hummelen, Joke Dols and Wayne L. Miller -- Probiotics-guidelines, regulations and Health claims / B. Sesikeran and R. Hemalatha -- Legislation of probiotic germented milk drinks: an important functional food in Asia / Akiyoshi Hosono -- "FOSHU" Japanese regulations for probiotic foods / Osamu Chonan -- Probiotics: a pharmacologist's perspective / S.D. Seth and Mohua Maulik -- Host-microbe interactions in the Gut: a microbiologist's perspective / R. Chaudhry, V.D. Bamola and P. Panigrahi -- Probiotics and intestinal defensins: augmenting the first line of defence in gastrointestinal immunity / Dipankar Ghosh -- Toward the identification of gut microbial markers associated to irritable bowel syndrome / Raish Oozeer and Patrick Veiga -- Probiotics and their role in reducing allergic disorders / .K. Kabra and Rakesh Lodha -- Oral microflora, oral health and probiotics / Mahesh Verma and Ruchika Roongta Nawal -- Proiotics and women's health / Indrani Ganguli, Mala Srivastava and Mamta Dagar ER -