Effect of Starch Malabsorption on Fecal Bile Acids and Neutral Sterols in Humans: Possible Implications for Colonic Carcinogenesis

Cancer Research

Volumn 51, Issue 16, 1991, Pages 4238-4242

  Bartram, Hans Peter ^a   Scheppach, Wolfgang ^a   Heid, Claudia ^a   Fabian, Claudia ^b   Kasper, Heinrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACARBOSE; BILE ACID; STARCH; STEROL;

ARTICLE; COLON CARCINOGENESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; FECES; FLATULENCE; HUMAN; MALABSORPTION; NORMAL HUMAN; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACARBOSE; ADULT; ALPHA-GLUCOSIDASES; BILE ACIDS AND SALTS; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; DIETARY CARBOHYDRATES; FECES; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALABSORPTION SYNDROMES; MALE; REFERENCE VALUES; RISK FACTORS; STEROLS; TRISACCHARIDES;

EID: 0025938383     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: 15387445     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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