Abstract:Impaired intestinal barrier commonly occurs during the renal dysfunction. In this study, we assessed the effect of probiotics on impaired intestinal barrier and related inflammation in 5/6 nephrectomy rat model (CKD rats). The results showed that CKD rats impaired intestinal barrier was significantly imporved by gavage administration of 6×1010 CFU/d of probiotics mixture for ten weeks. treated by probiotics mixture product had remarkably lower lipopolysaccharide (LPS) in serum (from 0.19 EU/mL to 0.10 EU/mL, P<0.05). This indicated that probiotics mixture reduced intestinal permeability. Taking probiotics mixture significantly increased crypt depth, thickness of mucosa and the number of goblet cells(P<0.05) in intestinal epithelium. Administration of probiotics mixture also increase expression of of ZO-1 and claudin-1(P<0.05) indicating the improvement of tight junction. Furthermore, Taking probiotics mixture significantly decreased the level of C-reaction protein and TNF-α (P<0.05), and increased the level of IL-10 and IL-13 (P<0.05) in serum indicating balanced proinflammatory and anti-inflammatory reponses of host.