Volume 88: Issue Suppl.

Contents

S1

Preface and acknowledgements

S3

Foreword

S5

Probiotics and inflammatory bowel disease: from fads and fantasy to facts and future

Fergus Shanahan

S11

Intestinal flora during the first months of life: new perspectives

C. A. Edwards, A. M. Parrett

S19

Probiotics: on-going research on atopic individuals

K. Laiho, U. Hoppu, A. C. Ouwehand, S. Salminen, E. Isolauri

S29

Application of molecular biological methods forstudying probiotics and the gut flora

A. L. McCartney

S39

Probiotics as modulators of the gut flora

L. J. Fooks, G. R. Gibson

S51

Probiotics and intestinal health effects: a clinical perspective

P. Marteau, P. Seksik, R. Jian

S59

Probiotics and non-intestinal infectious conditions

M. de Vrese, J. Schrezenmeir

S67

A review of the role of the gut microflora in irritable bowel syndrome and the effects of probiotics

J. A. J. Madden, J. O. Hunter

S73

Diet and cancer: assessing the risk

C. I. R. Gill, I. R. Rowland

S89

Lactic acid bacteria and cancer: mechanistic perspective

J. Rafter

S95

Improvement of the probiotic effect of microorganisms by their combination with maltodextrins, fructo-oligosaccharides and polyunsaturated fatty acids

A. Bomba, R. Nemcová, S. Gancarcíková, R. Herich, P. Guba, D. Mudronová

S101

Competition for adhesion between probiotics and human gastrointestinal pathogens in the presence of carbohydrate

Y.-K. Lee, K.-Y. Puong

S109

The Yakult International Conference, Probiotics & Health 2001, The Three Ages of Man. Was held at The Royal College of Physicians in London on 13-14 September 2001