Effect of lactitol on blood ammonia response to oral glutamine challenge in cirrhotic patients: Evidence for an effect of nonabsorbable disaccharides on small intestine ammonia generation

American Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 94, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 3323-3327

  Masini, Andrea ^a   Efrati, Cesare ^a   Merli, Manuela ^a   Attili, Adolfo Francesco ^a   Amodio, Piero ^b   Ceccanti, Mauro ^a   Riggio, Oliviero ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; DISACCHARIDE; GLUTAMINE; LACTITOL;

ADULT; AGED; AMMONIA BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL FLORA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMAN; INTESTINE TRANSIT TIME; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; AMMONIA; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; BACTERIA; CATHARTICS; COGNITION; COLON; DISACCHARIDES; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GASTROINTESTINAL TRANSIT; GLUTAMINE; HUMANS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; INTESTINAL ABSORPTION; JEJUNUM; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; SUGAR ALCOHOLS;

EID: 0032755986     PISSN: 00029270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9270(99)00605-X     Document Type: Article

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