Probiotic Microbes Sustain Youthful Serum Testosterone Levels and Testicular Size in Aging Mice

The decline of circulating testosterone levels in aging men is associated with adverse health effects. During studies of probiotic bacteria and obesity, we discovered that male mice routinely consuming purified lactic acid bacteria originally isolated from human milk had larger testicles and increas...

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Main Authors: Poutahidis, Theofilos, Levkovich, Tatiana, Qi, Peimin, Lakritz, Jessica, Chatzigiagkos, Antonis, Alm, Eric J., Erdman, Susan E., Springer, Alexander D., Varian, Bernard, Ibrahim, Yassin
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Biological Engineering
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Public Library of Science 2014
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/86017
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8294-9364