Research Article

Cholesterol Assimilation by Lactobacillus Probiotic Bacteria: An In Vitro Investigation

Figure 1

(a) Viability and (b) cholesterol assimilation of probiotic Lactobacillus in MRS containing 100 μg/mL of cholesterol, following 24 h of incubation. Data is represented as means ± SEM, . Tukey’s homogeneous subsets generated from pairwise comparisons are represented as a, b, c, d, and e, with “a” representing the most significant subset from control.
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