Indian Journal of Public Health Research & Development
  • Year: 2018
  • Volume: 9
  • Issue: 12

Improving the immune response Il-10 and secretory immunoglobulin a in the elderly after getting synbiotic

  • Author:
  • Rudy Hartono1, Agustian Ipa1, Aswita Amir1, Bambang Wirjatmadi2, Ridho Pratama1, Ronny Horax3
  • Total Page Count: 5
  • Page Number: 618 to 622

1Health Polytechnic of Ministry of Health in Makassar, Indonesia

2Professor of Community Nutrition, Public Health Faculty, Airlangga University, Indonesia

3Department of Food Science, University of Arkansas, USA

Online published on 9 January, 2019.

Abstract

Increasing age will reduce the body's resistance, so it needs functional foods that can maintain the body's immune system, especially the elderly. This research was conducted to see the synbiotics effect on IL-10 immune response and secretory immunoglobulin A (sIgA) which was done by intervening to the elderly using synbiotics. The results showed that after administration of IL-10 and sIgA (p <0.05) there was an increase in the immune response of the two markers. Based on the results of this study can be recommended the use of synbiotics as an alternative to maintaining the immune system in the elderly.

Keywords

Functional Foods, Synbiotic, Immune response, Immunoglobulin A