Lactate and short chain fatty acid production in the human colon: Implications for D-lactic acidosis, short-bowel syndrome, antibiotic-associated diarrhoea, colonic cancer, and inflammatory bowel disease

Danish Medical Bulletin

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 15-33

  Hove, Hanne ^a,b  

^a Rigshospitalet

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; LACTIC ACID; SHORT CHAIN FATTY ACID;

COLON CANCER; DIARRHEA; ENTERITIS; HUMAN; LACTIC ACIDOSIS; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; SHORT BOWEL SYNDROME;

ACIDOSIS, LACTIC; ANIMALS; COLON; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; DIARRHEA; FATTY ACIDS, VOLATILE; HUMANS; INTESTINAL DISEASES; LACTIC ACID; SHORT BOWEL SYNDROME;

EID: 0031985761     PISSN: 09078916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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