Probiotic foods in health and disease / edited by G. Balakrish Nair, Yoshifumi Takeda. -- Boca Raton, FL : CRC Press ; Enfield, New Hampshire : Science Publishers, c2011. – (83.036/P962)

Contents

Foreword

Preface

1.  Probiotic Foods Today and the Future: Where Science and Commerce Need to Meet

2.  Probiotics- Guidelines, Regulations and Health Claims

3.  Legislation of Probiotic Fermented Milk Drinks--An Important Functional Food in Asia

4.  "FOSHU" Japanese Regulations for Probiotic Foods

5.  Probiotics: A Pharmacologist's Perspective

6.  Host-microbe Interactions in the Gut: A Microbiologist's Perspective

7.  Probiotics and Intestinal Defensins: Augmenting the First Line of Defence in Gastrointestinal Immunity

8.  Toward the Identification of Gut Microbial Markers Associated to Irritable Bowel Syndrome

9.  Probiotics and their Role in Reducing Allergic Disorders

10.  Oral Microflora, Oral Health and Probiotics

11.  Proiotics and Women's Health

Index