Isolation and identification of lactic acid bacteria from environmental samples / Akihito Endo, Yasuhiro Tanizawa, and Masanori Arita -- Basic antibacterial assay to screen for bacteriocinogenic lactic acid bacteria and to elementarily characterize their bacteriocins / Kensuke Arakawa -- Assaying D-body amino acids as D-alanine and amino acid racemase (AARase) activity using NADH oxidoreduction enzymic system / Natsuki Matsumoto and Makoto Kanauchi -- Intracellular pH determination for the study of acid tolerance of lactic acid bacteria / Hiromu Kudo and Yasuko Sasaki -- Yogurt production / Seiji Nagaoka -- Purification, rheological characterization, and visualization of viscous, neutral, hetero-exopolysaccharide produced by lactic acid bacteria / S. Ikeda, D. Kondoh, N. P. D. Aryantini, T. Urashima, and K. Fukuda -- Structural analysis of exopolysaccharides from lactic acid bacteria / Gerrit J. Gerwig -- Preparation of exopolysaccharide synthesized by lactic acid / Junko Nishimura -- PCR analysis methods for detection and identification of beer-spoilage lactic acid / S. Asano, M. Shimokawa, and K. Suzuki -- Isolation of lactic acid bacteria eliminating trimethylamine (TMA) for application to fishery processing / Satoshi Mohri and Makoto Kanauchi -- Screening the lactic acid bacteria converting hydroxy fatty acid from unsaturated fatty acid / Makoto Kanauchi -- Screening and characterization of immunobiotic lactic acid bacteria with porcine immunoassay systems / Valeria Garcia-Castillo, Leonardo Albarracin, Haruki Kitazawa, and Julio Villena -- Biosorption of heavy metals by lactic acid bacteria for detoxification / Hideki Kinoshita -- Adhesion of lactobacillus to intestinal mucin / Keita Nishiyama and Takao Mukai -- Eliminating lipopolysaccharide (LPS) using lactic acid bacteria (LAB) and a faction of its LPS-elimination protein / Makoto Kanauchi, Ayaka Kondo, and Kyoko Asami -- Cloning and expression of lipopolysaccharide elimination protein (LEP) in lactic acid bacteria / Kyoko Asami and Makoto Kanauchi