Dose-response effects of raw potato starch on small-intestinal escape, large-bowel fermentation and gut transit time in the rat

British Journal of Nutrition

Volumn 78, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1015-1029

  Mathers, J C ^a   Smith, Helen ^a   Carter, Sophie ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Gut transit time; Resistant starch; Short chain fatty acids; Thermophilic bacterial spores

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID; BUTYRIC ACID; EDETATE CHROMIUM; POTATO STARCH; PROPIONIC ACID; SHORT CHAIN FATTY ACID; STARCH;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL SPORE; CECUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIGESTION; DOSE RESPONSE; FERMENTATION; GEOBACILLUS STEAROTHERMOPHILUS; ILEUM; INTESTINE TRANSIT TIME; LARGE INTESTINE; MAIZE; MALE; NONHUMAN; RAT; SMALL INTESTINE; TEST MEAL;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BACILLUS STEAROTHERMOPHILUS; CHROMIUM; DIGESTION; EDETIC ACID; FECES; GASTROINTESTINAL TRANSIT; INTESTINAL ABSORPTION; INTESTINE, LARGE; INTESTINE, SMALL; MALE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM; SPORES; STARCH; ZEA MAYS;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); GEOBACILLUS STEAROTHERMOPHILUS; RATTUS NORVEGICUS; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0031451278     PISSN: 00071145     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1079/BJN19970215     Document Type: Article

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