Different substrates and methane producing status affect short-chain fatty acid profiles produced by vitro fermentation of human feces

Journal of Nutrition

Volumn 130, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 1932-1936

  Fernandes, Judlyn ^a   Rao, A Venketeshwer ^a   Wolever, Thomas M S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Humans; In vitro fermentation; Methane; Short chain fatty acids

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID; BUTYRIC ACID; GUAR GUM; HEXANOIC ACID; ISOBUTYRIC ACID; LACTULOSE; METHANE; PROPIONIC ACID; RHAMNOSE; SHORT CHAIN FATTY ACID; VALERIC ACID;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREATH ANALYSIS; COLON SECRETION; FECES; FEMALE; FERMENTATION; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; ILEOSTOMY; LIPID COMPOSITION; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN;

CYAMOPSIS TETRAGONOLOBA;

EID: 0033932214     PISSN: 00223166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jn/130.8.1932     Document Type: Article

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