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Papada, Efstathia, Gioxari, Aristea, Amerikanou, Charalampia, Forbes, Alastair 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7416-9843, Tzavara, Chara, Smyrnioudis, Ilias and Kaliora, Andriana C.
(2019)
Regulation of faecal biomarkers in Inflammatory Bowel Disease patients treated with oral Mastiha (Pistacia lentiscus) supplement: a double-blind and placebo controlled randomised trial.
Phytotherapy Research, 33 (2).
pp. 360-369.
ISSN 0951-418X
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Abstract
There is a keen research upon the effects of nutraceuticals on inflammatory bowel disease. The purpose of this study was to explore the effect of mastiha supplement, rich in bioactive nutraceuticals, in active inflammatory bowel disease. This is a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial. Α total of 60 inflammatory bowel disease patients were enrolled and randomly allocated to mastiha (2.8 g/day) or placebo groups for 3 months adjunct to stable medical treatment. Medical and dietary history, Inflammatory Bowel Disease Questionnaire (IBDQ), Harvey-Bradshaw index, partial Mayo score, biochemical indices, faecal, and blood inflammatory markers were assessed. A clinically important difference between groups in IBDQ was defined as primary outcome. Inflammatory Bowel Disease Questionnaire score significantly improved in verum compared with baseline (p = 0.004). There was a significant decrease in faecal lysozyme in mastiha patients (p = 0.018) with the mean change being significant (p = 0.021), and significant increases of faecal lactoferrin (p = 0.001) and calprotectin (p = 0.029) in the placebo group. Fibrinogen reduced significantly (p = 0.006) with a significant mean change (p = 0.018), whereas iron increased (p = 0.032) in mastiha arm. Our results show regulation of faecal lysozyme by mastiha supplement adjunctive to pharmacological treatments in active inflammatory bowel disease. An effect secondary to a prebiotic potency is proposed.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | nutraceuticals,lysozyme,inflammatory bowel disease,crohn’s disease,ulcerative colitis,mastiha (pistacia lentiscus) |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Norwich Medical School |
| UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Research Groups > Nutrition and Preventive Medicine Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Research Groups > Gastroenterology and Gut Biology |
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| Depositing User: | LivePure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 22 Oct 2018 12:30 |
| Last Modified: | 22 Oct 2022 04:11 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/68601 |
| DOI: | 10.1002/ptr.6229 |
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