PUBLICACIONES

Capítulos de libros

• Susana Alvarez, Julio Villena, Silvia Racedo, Susana Salva and Graciela Agüero. Malnutrition, probiotics and respiratory infections. (2007). Research Advances in Nutrition. Global Research Network (Ed), India. pp 9-23. 2007.
• Susana Alvarez, Julio Villena and Susana Salva. Humoral immunity against respiratory pathogens: can lactic acid bacteria improve it? (2009). Research Advances in Infection and Immunity. Global Research Network (Ed), India. In press.
• Susana Alvarez, Marcela Medina y Elisa Vintiñi. Probióticos en el tracto respiratorio. (2009), Probióticos y Salud. España. In press.
• Adriana Perez Chaia, Graciela Agüero, Carina Van Nieuwenhove, Susana Salva, Gabriela Zárate y Cecilia Haro. Probióticos y cáncer. (2009), Probióticos y Salud. España. In press.

Trabajos

• 2001. Alvarez S., Herrero C., Bru E. and Perdigón G. Effect of Lactobacillus casei and yogur administration on prevention of Pseudomonas aeruginosa infection in young mice. Journal of Food Protection 64:1768-1774
•  2001. Rodríguez A. V., Baigorí M. D., Alvarez S., Castro G. and Oliver G. Phosphatidylinositol-specific phospholipase C activity in Lactobacillus rhamnosus with capacity to translocate. FEMS Microbiology Letters 204:33-38
• 2000. Vintiñi E., Alvarez S., Medina M., Medici M., Budeguer M. V. de, and G. Perdigón. Gut mucosal immunostimulation by lactic acid bacteria. Biocell 24:223-232
• Graciela Agüero, Sandra Lazarte, Susana Salva, Julio Villena, Silvia González and Susana Alvarez. Biological effects of goat milk administration in a malnutrition model.  (2004). Milchwissenschaft (Milk Science International) 5/6: 266-270.
• Julio Villena, Silvia Racedo, Graciela Agüero, Elena Bru, Marcela Medina and Susana Alvarez. Lactobacillus casei improves resistance to pneumococcal respiratory infection in malnourished mice. (2005). Journal of Nutrition. 135 (6): 1462-1469.
• Julio Villena, Silvia Racedo, Graciela Agüero and Susana Alvarez. Yogurt accelerates the recovery of defence mechanisms against Streptococcus pneumoniae in protein malnourished mice. (2006). British Journal of Nutrition. 95: 591-602.
• Silvia Racedo, Julio Villena, Marcela Medina, Graciela Agüero and Susana Alvarez. Lactobacillus casei administration reduces lung injuries in a Streptococcus pneumoniae infection. (2006). Microbes and Infection 8: 2359-2366.
• Graciela Agüero, Julio Villena, Silvia Racedo, Cecilia Haro and Susana Alvarez. Beneficial immunomodulatory activity of Lactobacillus casei in malnourished mice pneumonia: effect on inflammation and coagulation. (2006). Nutrition 22: 810-819.
• Julio Villena, Marcela Medina, Elisa Vintiñi and Susana Alvarez. Stimulation of respiratory immunity by oral administration of Lactococcus lactis. (2008). Canadian Journal of Microbiology 54: 630-638.
• Marcela Medina, Julio Villena, Susana Salva, Elisa Vintiñi, Phillipe Langella and Susana Alvarez. Nasal administration of Lactococcus lactis improves the local and systemic immune responses against Streptococcus pneumoniae. (2008). Microbiology and Immunology 52: 399-409.
• Marcela Medina, Julio Villena, Elisa Vintiñi,  Elvira María Hebert,  Raúl Raya and Susana Alvarez. Nasal immunization with Lactococcus lactis expressing the pneumococcal protective protein A induces protective immunity in infant mice. (2008). Infection and Immunity. 76: 2696-2705.
• Susana Salva, Julio Villena, Silvia Racedo, Graciela Agüero and Susana Alvarez. Lactobacillus casei addition to a repletion diet induced early normalization of cytokine profiles during pneumococcal infection in malnourished mice. (2008). Food and Agricultural Immunology. 19: 195-211.
• Julio Villena, Marcela Medina, Raúl Raya and Susana Alvarez. Oral immunization with recombinant Lactococcus lactis confers protection against respiratory pneumococcal infection. (2008). Canadian Journal of Microbiology. 54: 845-853.
• Julio Villena, Marcela Medina, Silvia Racedo and Susana Alvarez. Resistance of young mice to pneumococcal infection can be improved by oral vaccination with recombinant Lactococcus lactis. Journal of Microbiology, Immunology and Infection. In press.