Immune Modulating Capability of Two Exopolysaccharide-Producing Bifidobacterium Strains in a Wistar Rat Model

Table 1

Parameters related to the glucose homeostasis measured in the plasma of Wistar rats fed for 24 days with vehicle (100 μL of skimmed milk) or 10⁹ cfu per day of  B. animalis subps. lactis IPLA-R1 (B1 group) or B. longum IPLA-E44 (B2 group). Control rats were not submitted to the intervention study (0 days). The one-way ANOVA analyses did not show statistical differences.

Rat group	Mean ± SD
	Glucose (mg/dL)	Insulin (𝜇g/mL)	HOMA
Control (0 d)	76.2 ± 15.4	0.0060 ± 0.0045	0.20 ± 0.091
Vehicle (24 d)	74.3 ± 12.3	0.0061 ± 0.0052	0.21 ± 0.093
B1 (24 d)	69.6 ± 12.3	0.0063 ± 0.0049	0.19 ± 0.089
B2 (24 d)	82.4 ± 7.9	0.0063 ± 0.0051	0.17 ± 0.090