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. 2013 Sep 24;2013:583850. doi: 10.1155/2013/583850

Table 4.

Adhesion studies based on Probiotics.

Organism(s) Cells/cell line(s) Adhesion index* Reference
Bifidobacterium breve (4, 5, 25)
B. longum (4, 16, 18, 22)
B. bifidum (7, 8)
B. infantis (1)
Caco-2
HT29-MTX
B. breve (4): 205 ± 18 
B. longum (16): 72 ± 13 
B. bifidum (8): 35 ± 6 
B. infantis (1): 161 ± 14 
[17]

Lactobacillus rhamnosus GG
L. casei strain Shirota
L. johnsonii La1
L. rhamnosus LC 705
B. lactis Bb12
Mucus from feces L. rhamnosus GG: 28.8%
L. johnsonii La1: 27.3%
B. lactis Bb12: 10.0%
L. casei strain Shirota: 4.0%
L. rhamnosus Lc705: 1.3%
[21]

L. rhamnosus GG
B. animalis subsp. lactis Bb12
B. animalis IATA-A2
B. bifidum IATA-ES2
Caco-2
HT29-MTX
HT29-MTX: 0.5–2.3%
Caco-2/HT29-MTX: 0.6–3.2%
[22]

L. plantarum (9, 72, 75, 77, 90, 91)
L. delbrueckii subsp. bulgaricus CH4
L. plantarum CSCC5276
HT-29 
Caco-2
L. plantarum Lp91: 12.8 ± 1.56 [23]

163 Lactobacillaceae sp. HT-29 
HT-29 MTX
HT-29
Pediococci: 12.51% ± 1.4% 
Lactobacilli: 4.8% ± 61.6% 
HT-29 MTX
Pediococci: 13.5% ± 62.0% 
Lactobacilli: 10.3% ± 62.4%
[24]

P. acidilactici MTCC 5101 Caco-2 P. acidilactici: 152 ± 33 Present study

*Adhesion is indexed as % adhesion or mean ± SD of the number of bacterial cells adhered per 100 cells of cell line used.