Effect of meat and resistant starch on fecal excretion of apparent N- nitroso compounds and ammonia from the human large bowel

Nutrition and Cancer

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 13-23

  Silvester, Katherine R ^a   Bingham, Sheila A ^a   Pollock, Jim R A ^a   Cummings, John H ^a   O'Neill, Ian K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; NITROSO DERIVATIVE;

ADULT; AMMONIA FORMATION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; DNA DAMAGE; FECES; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN TISSUE; INTESTINE FUNCTION; MALE; MEAT; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NORMAL HUMAN; PH MEASUREMENT;

EID: 0030726134     PISSN: 01635581     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01635589709514596     Document Type: Article

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