Essays Tagged: "Lactobacillus"

Lactobacillus Acidophilus - why lactobacillus is a "good" bacteria and how it is used to help your body and prevent other diseases.

Lactobacillus AcidophilusThere are an estimated several trillion friendly bacteria comprising over 4 ... tract. By body weight, each of us carries around nearly four pounds of intestinal microflora.While Lactobacillus Acidophilus is probably the most well known of these, others you should know about inc ... logy in which species have their allotted role and population density in the intestinal environment.Lactobacillus Acidophilus is the predominant friendly bacteria in the upper intestinal tract. Lactob ...

(2 pages) 62 0 5.0 Feb/2003

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology > Human Biology

Yogurts Effect on Constipation

is beneficial to health. Yogurt is a dairy product which comes from milk; it contains the bacteria Lactobacillus bulgaricus, Lactobacillus acidophilus, and Streptococcus thermophilus. It can be made ... hich involve the friendly and the 'unhealthy' bacteria. The name of the good bacteria in yogurt are Lactobacillus bulgaricus, Streptococcus thermophilus, and Lactobacillus acidophilus, and they can ge ...

(7 pages) 83 2 4.6 May/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology

Lactic Acid Bacteria

entation.They are heterotrophic and can be found extensively in nature including plant leaves (e.g. Lactobacillus, Leuconostoc), the animal's oral cavity (e.g. Streptococcus mutans), digestive system ... .g. Streptococcus mutans), digestive system (e.g. Enterococcus faecalis), genitourinary tract (e.g. Lactobacillus) as well as faecal matter, compost and rotting vegetation. These areas normally have a ...

(13 pages) 101 0 5.0 May/2008

Subjects: Science Essays > Microbiology

Experimentation Critique

(3 pages) 75 0 5.0 Aug/2009

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine

Lab study of Fermentation of Sauerkraut to Explain Microbial Succession

eady succession of the coliform bacteria by lactic acid bacteria, first Leuconostoc then strains of Lactobacillus. Leuconostoc, characteristically known for their production of polysaccharide slime, w ... d pathogens. This also appropriates suitable growth conditions for species of Lactobacilli, notably Lactobacillus acidophilus, which ferment the carbohydrates present in the cabbage primarily to lacti ...

(7 pages) 49 0 0.0 Mar/2010

Subjects: History Term Papers > Asian History