Patent ID: 9675667
Date: 2017-06-13
CPC Classifications: A23L,A61K,C12N,G01N

Claim:
1. A method of altering ex vivo intercellular interaction between different species of microorganisms that intercellularly inhibit cell growth or intercellularly promote cell death, or both, comprising the steps of: a) combining, ex vivo, the microorganisms with at least one mucin, thereby altering at least one of the intercellular inhibition of cell growth and the intercellular promotion of cell death of at least one microorganism of a different species in the ex vivo combination, wherein the microorganisms include at least one member selected from the group consisting of a bacterium, an archaeon and a fungus, and wherein intercellular inhibition of cell growth or intercellular promotion of cell death, or both, is altered in at least one microorganism selected from the group consisting of a bacterium, an archaeon and a fungus; and b) desiccating the ex vivo combination of microorganisms and at least one mucin.