FOOD SCIENCE ›› 2009, Vol. 30 ›› Issue (5): 205-208.doi: 10.7506/spkx1002-6630-200905048

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Isolation and Identification of Cholesterol-lowering Bifidobacterium bifidum from Northeast Tiger Feces

YIN Jun-xia,SHEN Guo-juan,ZOU Bo, CHEN Hai-qing,LI Yang,DING Zhen-zhen   

  1. (Department of Biology, Shaoxing University, Shaoxing 312000, China)
  • Received:2008-05-14 Revised:2008-05-23 Online:2009-03-01 Published:2010-12-29
  • Contact: YIN Jun-xia E-mail:yjx@zscas.edu.com

Abstract:

In order to exploit functional food with high efficiency and safety in lowering cholesterol and preventing cardiovascular diseases, the selective medium TPY was adopted to isolate and screen Bifidobacterium from fresh feces of a healthy northeast tiger. The most efficient strain in lowering cholesterol in vitro was administered to artificially induced hyperlipaemia rats by gavage The effects of the strain on serum total cholesterol (TC), triglyceride (TG) and high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C) and body and viscera weights of rats were investigated, and the strain was identified by using VITEK-32 automatic microbe analytic systems. The results showed that 10 strains of Bifidobacterium were isolated and screened out in all, among which strain NO. 4 has the highest activity (57.14%) of lowering cholesterol in vitro. This strain can reduce body weight, serum TC, serum TG, hepatic fat and atherogenic index and enhance HDL-C/ TC value of hyperlipaemia rats. The strain NO.4 is identified to be Bifidobacterium bifidum and has certain utilization value in functional food development.

Key words: Bifidobacterium, Cholesterol, Northeast Tiger

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