Alteration of microbial populations in the gastrointestinal tract

US6348452B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignees

• The University of New South Wales · AU
• Burns Philp & Company Limited · AU
• Burns Philp Research & Development PTY Ltd. · AU
• COMMONWEALTH SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH ORGANISATION · AU
• Arnott's Biscuits Limited · AU
• Gist-Brocades Australia PTY Limited · AU
• Goodman Fiedler Ingredients Limited · AU

Inventors

• Ian Brown · Forbes, AU
• Patricia Conway · Sydney, AU
• Anthony John Evans · Hornsby, AU
• Karl Anders Olof Henriksson · Sydney, AU
• Kenneth J. McNaught · Cottage Point, AU
• Xin Wang · Beijing, CN

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 29, 1999
• Grant date: Feb 19, 2002
• Expiry date: Jan 29, 2019

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y02A50/30
• WIPO field: Pharmaceuticals
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

Method of enhancing a resident population of microorganism in a selected site of the gastrointestinal tract of an animal, the method comprising providing to the animal a selected modified or unmodified resistant starch or mixtures thereof in combination with one or more probiotic microorganisms such that upon ingestion the starch passes through the gastrointestinal tract substantially unutilized until it reaches the selected site where it is utilized by the resident and/or the probiotic microorganisms thereof causing an increase in number and/or activity of the microorganisms.