Human milk oligosaccharides are resistant to enzymatic hydrolysis in the upper gastrointestinal tract

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Volumn 71, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 1589-1596

  Engfer, Meike B ^b   Stahl, Bernd ^b   Finke, Berndt ^b   Sawatzki, Guenther ^b   Daniel, Hannelore ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Brush border membranes; Enzymatic hydrolysis; Human milk; MALDI MS; Matrix assisted laser desorption ionization mass spectrometry; Oligosaccharides; Pancreatic enzymes

Indexed keywords

OLIGOSACCHARIDE;

ARTICLE; BREAST MILK; CARBOHYDRATE ANALYSIS; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; ENZYME ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IN VITRO STUDY; LARGE INTESTINE; MASS SPECTROMETRY;

EID: 0034083133     PISSN: 00029165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ajcn/71.6.1589     Document Type: Article

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