Almazov National Medical Research Centre

The team of researchers at the Institute of Experimental Medicine (IEM) of Almazov Centre, led by Dr. Mikhail Galagudza, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, has demonstrated a method of reducing the size of the myocardial necrosis zone in an acute experiment on rats in the context of a systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS). This was achieved by administering a mixture of bifido- and lactobacilli in the diet, both therapeutically and prophylactically. The results of the study, which was supported by a grant from the Russian Science Foundation (RSF), were published in the following journals: Microorganisms, Medical Immunology, Bulletin of Experimental Biology and Medicine, Russian Journal of Physiology named after Sechenov and others.
Continue reading »