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Kefir: a powerful probiotics with anticancer properties

Overview of attention for article published in Medical Oncology, September 2017
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • One of the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#6 of 1,476)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (97th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (94th percentile)

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Title
Kefir: a powerful probiotics with anticancer properties
Published in
Medical Oncology, September 2017
DOI 10.1007/s12032-017-1044-9
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Authors

Mohammadreza Sharifi, Abbas Moridnia, Deniz Mortazavi, Mahsa Salehi, Marzieh Bagheri, Abdolkarim Sheikhi

Abstract

Probiotics and fermented milk products have attracted the attention of scientists from various fields, such as health care, industry and pharmacy. In recent years, reports have shown that dietary probiotics such as kefir have a great potential for cancer prevention and treatment. Kefir is fermented milk with Caucasian and Tibet origin, made from the incubation of kefir grains with raw milk or water. Kefir grains are a mixture of yeast and bacteria, living in a symbiotic association. Antibacterial, antifungal, anti-allergic and anti-inflammatory effects are some of the health beneficial properties of kefir grains. Furthermore, it is suggested that some of the bioactive compounds of kefir such as polysaccharides and peptides have great potential for inhibition of proliferation and induction of apoptosis in tumor cells. Many studies revealed that kefir acts on different cancers such as colorectal cancer, malignant T lymphocytes, breast cancer and lung carcinoma. In this review, we have focused on anticancer properties of kefir.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 367 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 62 17%
Student > Master 52 14%
Student > Ph. D. Student 25 7%
Other 19 5%
Researcher 18 5%
Other 55 15%
Unknown 136 37%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 46 13%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 44 12%
Nursing and Health Professions 34 9%
Medicine and Dentistry 24 7%
Immunology and Microbiology 13 4%
Other 53 14%
Unknown 153 42%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 96. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 10 March 2024.
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#459,728
of 26,106,015 outputs
Outputs from Medical Oncology
#6
of 1,476 outputs
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#9,387
of 332,578 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Medical Oncology
#1
of 17 outputs
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