Bernd Stahl

TL;DR: The present document has been written by a group of both academic and industry experts and aims to validate and expand the original idea of the prebiotic concept, defined as the selective stimulation of growth and/or activity of one or a limited number of microbial genus(era)/species in the gut microbiota that confer(s) health benefits to the host.

TL;DR: Results show for the first time a beneficial effect of prebiotics on the development of atopic dermatitis in a high risk population of infants and it appears likely that oligosaccharides modulate postnatal immune development by altering bowel flora and have a potential role in primary allergy prevention during infancy.

TL;DR: Data indicate that supplementation of a term infant's formula with a mixture of galacto- and fructooligosaccharides has a dose-dependent stimulating effect on the growth of Bifidobacteria and Lactobacilli in the intestine and results in softer stool with increasing dosage of supplementation.

TL;DR: It can be assumed that particularly milk of non-secretor women (milk group 2) exerts a modified biological protection in the babies in comparison with milks of secretors (groups 1 and 3) during the first 3 months of lactation.

TL;DR: A new technique for removing alkali cations from nucleic acid samples during sample preparation on the sample support is demonstrated and the amount of oligonucleotide sample consumed during a typical measurement in IR-MALDI-MS was determined.