NOVEL LACTIC ACID BACTERIA CAPABLE OF CONTROLLING BLOOD SUGAR AND USE THEREOF

摘要

The present invention provides a novel Lactobacillus species strain isolated from kimchi or human feces. The particular Bacillus species strain according to the present invention is highly safe by being isolated from kimchi or human feces and has various functionalities, such as excellent blood sugar control activity, antiobesity activity, blood cholesterol-lowering activity, blood neutral lipid-lowering activity, arteriosclerosis-inhibiting activity or inflammation-inhibiting activity. Accordingly, the particular Bacillus species strain according to the present invention can be used as a useful food and drug material for preventing, alleviating or treating diabetes, a metabolic syndrome including obesity, fatty liver, glycosuria, hyperlipidemia, cardiovascular disease, hypertension, arteriosclerosis and/or diabetes, an inflammatory disease, and so forth.