PROCAPS
Encapsulation of probiotics to nutritional intervention study
♦ Funding entity: This entity has received a financial aid from the Government of Navarra co-financed at 40% by the European Regional Fund development through the ERDF Operational Program 2021-2027 of Navarra.
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The project PROCAPS, was born from the need to demonstrate the survival of microencapsulated probiotics in the gastrointestinal tract. In fact, its main goal is to verify in vivo the protective effect of microencapsulation of probiotics against the deleterious effect of gastrointestinal transit and the release of live microorganisms in distal areas of the gastrointestinal tract, ensuring its efficacy.
For this purpose, the University of Navarra will collaborate in the selection of the strains to be tested and subsequently the intervention essay will be developed with a three-way, double-blind, crossover design .
Finally, probiotic survival will also be analyzed and sequenced by 16S metagenomics.
