Research papers of the week – November 20, 2023

Anna Szuba-Trznadel; Anna Rząsa

Annals of Animal Science

Ministerial score = 200.0
Journal Impact Factor (2023) = 1.9 (Q2)

Since January 2006 when using antibiotics as growth promoters in animal feed have been banned scientists are looking for the best resolution to apply alter-native substances. Extensive research into the health-promoting properties of probiotics and prebiotics has led to significant interest in the mechanisms of action of the combined administration of these feed additives as a synbiotic. Subsequent research has led to the development of new products. Among the most important health benefits of additives are, inhibiting the growth of path-ogenic bacteria in the GI tract, maintenance of homeostasis, treatment of in-flammatory bowel diseases, and increase in immunity. Specific immunomod-ulatory mechanisms of action are not well understood and the effect is not al-ways positive, though there are no reports of adverse effects of these sub-stances found in the literature. For this reason, research is still being conducted on their proper application. However, due to the difficulties of carrying out research on humans, evidence of the beneficial effect of these additives comes mainly from experiments on animals. The objective of the present work was to assess the effect of probiotics, prebiotics, and synbiotics, as well as new addi-tives including postbiotics, proteobiotics, nutribiotics, and pharmabiotics, on specific immunomodulatory mechanisms of action, increase in immunity, the reduction of a broad spectrum of diseases.

DOI:10.2478/aoas-2023-0021

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