Re: VSL#3 probiotic attenuates fibrosis without changes in steatohepatitis in a diet-induced nonalcoholic steatohepatitis model in mice.

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Thanks for the article. Has anyone on the list seen success with VSL

#3 (or other probiotics, for that matter). I've been taking Probiotic

Advantage from drdavidwilliams.com for several years and it almost

totally cleared up my UC, but they recently changed their formulation

and it's much less effective today (still better than anything else

I've tried, though; now I need two pills a day for not-quite-as-good

relief as one pill gave me before).

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> Probiotics exhibit immunoregulatory and anti-inflammatory activity.

We

> tested the hypothesis that probiotic VSL#3 may ameliorate the

> methionine-choline-deficient (MCD) diet-induced mouse model of

NASH...

> our data indicate that VSL#3 modulates liver fibrosis but does not

> protect from inflammation and steatosis in NASH...

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> http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19115316

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> Barb in Texas - Together in the Fight - Whatever it Takes!

> Son Ken (34) UC 91 PSC 99, LTX 6/21 & 6/30 2007 @ Baylor/Dallas

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