Silva Ricardo Augusto, Nahas Maria Julia Brolezzi, Bremer Sophia de Castro, de Oliveira Luiz Waldemar, de Souza Adriano Messias, Rufino Marcos Natal, Caetano Heliard Rodrigues Dos Santos, Keller Rogéria, Bremer-Neto Hermann
Food, Nutrition and Basic, Experimental and Clinical Health Research Group, Department of Functional Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Western São Paulo University (UNOESTE), São Paulo, Brazil.
Department of Nursing, Medicine School of Marilia - FAMEMA, Marilia, Brazil.
J Sci Food Agric. 2025 Nov;105(14):7619-7631. doi: 10.1002/jsfa.14325. Epub 2025 May 10.
The prevalence of allergic asthma is increasing worldwide and it is important that new treatments are implemented. This study aimed to thoroughly investigate the effect of prebiotics on parameters indicative of allergic asthma induced by ovalbumin (OVA), house dust mites (HDM) and OVA + lipopolysaccharide (LPS). The review was registered in the Open Science Framework (registration ID: osf.io/du4ab). PRISMA and web-app Rayyan were used as tools for the selection of studies collected in seven databases: PubMed; ScienceDirect; Web of Science; Scielo; Scopus; EMBASE; and Google Scholar with the use of predetermined keywords and Medical Subject Heading terms of the National Library of Medicine. Eight studies involving 182 mice and rats were included in the meta-analysis. The results showed a significant reduction in the total number of inflammatory cells and in the isolated number of inflammatory cells, eosinophils, lymphocytes, macrophages and neutrophils (P < 0.05). The results also revealed a significant decrease in the concentration of interleukins 13 and 33 in lung tissue. The present study demonstrated that prebiotic supplementation in the diet of rats and mice, as preclinical models, mitigates indicative parameters, inflammatory cells and interleukins, of allergic asthma induced by OVA, HDM or OVA + LPS. These beneficial results encourage randomized clinical trials to be carried out aiming at the prevention/treatment of allergic asthma. © 2025 Society of Chemical Industry.
