TY - JOUR AU - Lim, Jong-Min AU - Kim, Young Dae AU - Song, Chang-Hyun AU - Park, Su-Jin AU - Park, Dong-Chan AU - Cho, Hyung-Rae AU - Jung, Go-Woon AU - Bashir, Khawaja Muhammad Imran AU - Ku, Sae Kwang AU - Choi, Jae-Suk PY - 2019 DA - 2019/06/21 TI - Laxative effects of triple fermented barley extracts (FBe) on loperamide (LP)-induced constipation in rats JO - BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine SP - 143 VL - 19 IS - 1 AB - Constipation, a common health problem, causes discomfort and affects the quality of life. This study intended to evaluate the potential laxative effect of triple fermented barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) extract (FBe), produced by saccharification, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, and Weissella cibaria, on loperamide (LP)-induced constipation in Sprague-Dawley (SD) rats, a well-established animal model of spastic constipation. SN - 1472-6882 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12906-019-2557-x DO - 10.1186/s12906-019-2557-x ID - Lim2019 ER -