The Impact of MS-20 on Gut Microbiota Composition in Adult Individuals

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2020-11-20
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

MicrSoy-20 (MS-20), a fermented soymilk product, has been approved as an Over the counter (OTC) drug in 2011. The therapeutic effect of MS-20 is to ameliorate symptoms such as fatigue and loss of appetite caused by cancer chemotherapy. Animal study revealed orally administration of MS-20 daily for 4 weeks altered the gut microbiota composition in mice. In addition, MS-20 could activate dendritic cell and improve immunotherapy response rate. Thus, it was hypothesis that MS-20 improves host immune activity thus ameliorate fatigue and increase weight is through alteration the gut microbiota composition.

In this study, the ability of MS-20 in modulating gut microbiota and the subset of microbiome to be altered by MS-20 was investigated.

• Phase: N/A
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Microbio Co Ltd

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

1. Male or female subjects aged between 20 and 65 years old.

2. The subject is able to provide written informed consent by himself/herself and agrees to comply with all protocol requirements.

3. The subject agrees to comply with the following two requirements:

1. comply with all follow-up visit requirements according to the trial protocol.

2. comply with all requirement regarding fecal samples collection, storage and delivery according to the trial protocol.

Exclusion Criteria:

1. The subject has soybean allergy.

2. The subject is pregnant or lactating.

3. The subject has received or is receiving chemotherapy.

4. The subject has received any antibiotic, antifungals or antivirals (excluding topical agents and antiviral prophylaxis for hepatitis B virus) within 30 days prior to visit 1 .

5. The subject has a clinically significant, currently active or underlying diarrhea (soft or loose stools more than three times in 24 hours) of infectious etiologies.

6. The subject has received any steroids, immunosuppressant or anti-inflammation drugs within 30 days prior to visit 1.

7. The subject has received probiotics or prebiotics 30 days prior to visit 1

8. The subject who has been diagnosed a chronic kidney disease, chronic gut inflammatory disease, cancer, or autoimmune disease within 1 year before participating this study.

9. Alcohol abuse, and smoking abuse.

10. The subject has active inflammatory bowel disease or gastric ulcer.

11. The subject currently is participating in studies involving other investigational drugs, medical devices, functional foods, or cosmetic.

12. The subject is considered by the investigator as not suitable for the trial.

13. The subject is judged by the investigator as not suitable for the trial due to concerns about possible non-compliance or severe concomitant illnesses.