Journal
JOURNAL OF DAIRY SCIENCE
Volume 105, Issue 4, Pages 2908-2921Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.3168/jds.2021-21265
Keywords
alcoholic liver disease; probiotics; metagenomics; bacteriophage; gut microbiota
Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China (Beijing, China) [32001711, 31972083, 31720103911]
- Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Science and Technology Achievement Transformation Project (Hohhot, China) [2019CG027]
- Major Program of Natural Science Foundation of Inner Mongolia (Hohhot, China) [2019ZD06]
- Inner Mongolia Science and Technology Major Projects (Hohhot, China) [2021ZD0014]
- Provincial and Ministerial Co-found Collaborative Innovation Center of Lactic Acid Bacteria and Fermented Dairy Products
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This study investigated the protective effect of probiotic-fermented milk in rats with alcoholic liver disease. The results showed that probiotic-fermented milk maintained gut microbiota stability, reduced liver inflammation and oxidative stress, and mitigated liver damages in alcoholic liver disease.
Alcoholic liver disease (ALD) is a liver disease caused by long-term heavy drinking, which is characterized by increased inflammation and oxidative stress in the liver and gut dysbiosis. The purpose of this study was to investigate the protective effect of administering ordinary and probiotic-(containing the Bifidobacterium animalis ssp. lactis Probio-M8 strain; M8) fermented milk to rats. Several biochemical parameters and the fecal metagenomes were monitored before (d 0) and after (d 42) the intervention. Our results confirmed that alcohol could cause significant changes in the liver levels of the proinflammatory cytokine IL-1 beta, antioxidation indicators, and liver function-related indicators; meanwhile, the gut bacterial and viral microbiota were disrupted with significant reduction in microbial diversity and richness. Feeding the rats with Probio-M8-fermented milk effectively maintained the gut microbiota stability, reduced liver inflammation and oxidative stress, and mitigated liver damages in ALD. Moreover, the Probio-M8-fermented milk reversed alcohol-induced dysbiosis by restoring the gut microbiota diversity, richness, and composition. Four predicted fecal metabolites (inositol, tryptophan, cortisol, and vitamin K2) increased after the intervention, which might help regulate liver metabolism and alleviate ALD-related symptoms. In short, our data supported that consuming Probio-M8-fermented milk effectively mitigated ALD. The protective effect against ALD could be related to changes in the gut microbiome after probiotic-fermented milk consumption. However, such observation and the causal relationship among probiotic milk consumption, changes in gut microbiome, and disease alleviation would still need to be further confirmed. Nevertheless, this study has shown in a rat model that consuming probiotic-fermented milk could protect against ALD.
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