Sonja Nybom

21.12.2011
Department of Biosciences, Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland

Removal of cyanobacterial toxins by strains of probiotic bacteria

Reviewers:

Docent Miguel Gueimonde, Instituto de Productos Lácteos de Asturias - Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (IPLA-CSIC), Vilaviciosa, Asturias, Spain

Docent Sampo Lahtinen, Danisco BioActives, Health and Nutrition, Kantvik, Finland

Opponent:

Professor Robert Rastall, Department of Food and Nutrional Sciences, University of Reading, Reading, UK

Custos:

Professor J. Peter Slotte, Department of Biosciences, Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland

Publications:

  1. Nybom SMK, Salminen SJ, Meriluoto JAO. (2007) Removal of microcystin-LR by strains of metabolically active probiotic bacteria. FEMS Microbiology Letters:270: 27-33.
  2. Nybom SMK, Salminen SJ, Meriluoto JAO. (2008) Specific strains of probiotic bacteria are efficient in removal of several different cyanobacterial toxins from solution. Toxicon 52:214-20
  3. Nybom SMK, Collado MC, Surono IS, Salminen SJ, Meriluoto JAO. (2008) Effect of glucose in removal of microcystin-LR by viable commercial probiotic strains and strains isolated from dadih fermented milk. J Agric Food Chem. 56:3714-20
  4. Nybom SMK, Dziga D, Heikkilä JE, Kull TPJ, Salminen SJ, Meriluoto JAO. (2012) Characterization of microcystin-LR removal process in the presence of probiotic bacteria. Toxicon 59: 171-181

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