Probiotics-supplemented feeding in extremely low-birth-weight infants

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1996 • 1,498 citations

Probiotic bacteria enhance murine and human intestinal epithelial barrier function

2001 • 1,096 citations

The requirement of intestinal bacterial flora for the development of an IgE production system fully susceptible to oral tolerance induction.

1997 • 1,088 citations

Microbial modulation of innate defense: goblet cells and the intestinal mucus layer

2001 • 959 citations

Probiotics inhibit enteropathogenicE. coliadherence in vitro by inducing intestinal mucin gene expression

1999 • 820 citations

Trends in Mortality and Morbidity for Very Low Birth Weight Infants, 1991–1999

2002 • 773 citations

Oral Probiotics Reduce the Incidence and Severity of Necrotizing Enterocolitis in Very Low Birth Weight Infants

2005 • 664 citations

Lactobacillus Sepsis Associated With Probiotic Therapy

2005 • 579 citations

Immunomodulation of Human Blood Cells Following the Ingestion of Lactic Acid Bacteria

1995 • 572 citations

Oral Probiotics Prevent Necrotizing Enterocolitis in Very Low Birth Weight Neonates

2005 • 555 citations

Updated Meta-analysis of Probiotics for Preventing Necrotizing Enterocolitis in Preterm Neonates

2010 • 533 citations

Oral Probiotics Prevent Necrotizing Enterocolitis in Very Low Birth Weight Preterm Infants: A Multicenter, Randomized, Controlled Trial

2008 • 500 citations

Probiotics Feeding in Prevention of Urinary Tract Infection, Bacterial Sepsis and Necrotizing Enterocolitis in Preterm Infants

2002 • 440 citations

Intrauterine, Early Neonatal, and Postdischarge Growth and Neurodevelopmental Outcome at 5.4 Years in Extremely Preterm Infants After Intensive Neonatal Nutritional Support

2008 • 424 citations

Effect of a probiotic formula on intestinal immunoglobulin A production in healthy children

1998 • 343 citations

Early administration of Bifidobacterium breve to preterm infants: randomised controlled trial

1997 • 320 citations

Oral Supplementation with Lactobacillus casei Subspecies rhamnosus Prevents Enteric Colonization by Candida Species in Preterm Neonates: A Randomized Study

2006 • 302 citations

Accuracy of Methods for Calculating Postnatal Growth Velocity for Extremely Low Birth Weight Infants

2005 • 229 citations

Effects of Bifidobacterium lactis Bb12 Supplementation on Intestinal Microbiota of Preterm Infants: a Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled, Randomized Study

2006 • 225 citations

Prophylactic Probiotics for Prevention of Necrotizing Enterocolitis in Very Low Birth Weight Newborns

2008 • 217 citations

Oral supplementation with probiotics in very-low-birth-weight preterm infants: a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial

2009 • 214 citations

The effect of a bifidobacter supplemented bovine milk on intestinal permeability of preterm infants

2007 • 207 citations

Factors controlling the bacterial colonization of the intestine in breastfed infants

1999 • 200 citations

Enteral feeding of premature infants with Saccharomyces boulardii

2003 • 181 citations

Probiotic effects on faecal inflammatory markers and on faecal IgA in food allergic atopic eczema/dermatitis syndrome infants

2005 • 172 citations

Interleukin-12 is involved in the enhancement of human natural killer cell activity byLactobacillus caseiShirota

2006 • 169 citations

Bifidobacterium Septicemia Associated with Postoperative Probiotic Therapy in a Neonate with Omphalocele

2010 • 161 citations

Probiotics for preterm infants?

2003 • 144 citations

Probiotics: Role in Pathophysiology and Prevention in Necrotizing Enterocolitis

2008 • 131 citations

Bifidobacterium Breve Enhances Transforming Growth Factor β1 Signaling by Regulating Smad7 Expression in Preterm Infants

2006 • 106 citations

Stimulation of Cytokine Production in Clonal Macrophage and T-Cell Models by Streptococcus thermophilus: Comparison with Bifidobacterium sp. and Lactobacillus bulgaricus

1998 • 86 citations

Endocarditis by Lactobacillus rhamnosus due to Yogurt Ingestion?

2001 • 82 citations

Neonatal Necrotizing Enterocolitis: Possible Role of Probiotic Supplementation

2000 • 70 citations

Influence of early diet on outcome in preterm infants

1994 • 69 citations

Probiotic lactobacilli and bacteraemia in Stockholm

2006 • 66 citations

Occurrence of Necrotizing Enterocolitis May Be Dependent on Patterns of Bacterial Adherence and Intestinal Colonization: Studies in Caco-2 Tissue Culture and Weanling Rabbit Models

1994 • 63 citations

Neonatal Necrotizing Enterocolitis: Possible Role of Probiotic Supplementation

2000 • 62 citations

Butyrate Regulates the Expression of Pathogen-Triggered IL-8 in Intestinal Epithelia

2007 • 61 citations