Is the rat a suitable model for humans on studies of cereal digestion?

European Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Volumn 50, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 710-712

  Roe, M ^a   Brown, J ^a   Faulks, R ^a   Livesey, G ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF FOOD RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Barley; Digestion; Humans; Ileostomists; Nonstarch polysaccharide; Plant cell walls; Rat; Resistant starch; Starch

Indexed keywords

POLYSACCHARIDE; STARCH;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BARLEY; CELL WALL; CEREAL; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIGESTION; FLOUR; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; ILEOSTOMY; ILEUM; MALE; NONHUMAN; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RAT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ADULT; ANIMALS; DIGESTION; HORDEUM; HUMANS; ILEOSTOMY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALIA; HORDEUM VULGARE SUBSP. VULGARE;

EID: 0029806932     PISSN: 09543007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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