Inulin is an ideal substrate for a hydrogen breath test to measure the orocaecal transit time

Alimentary Pharmacology and Therapeutics

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 721-729

  Geboes, K P ^a   Luypaerts, A ^a   Rutgeerts, P ^a   Verbeke, K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON 13; FRUCTOSE; GLUCOSE; INULIN; LACTULOSE; RAFTILIN HP; RAFTILIN ST; RAFTILOSE; SUCROSE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIGESTION; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYDROGEN BREATH TEST; INTESTINE TRANSIT TIME; LIPID DEGRADATION; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; RELIABILITY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STOMACH EMPTYING;

BREATH TESTS; CARBON DIOXIDE; DIGESTION; FEMALE; GASTRIC EMPTYING; GASTROINTESTINAL TRANSIT; HUMANS; HYDROGEN; INULIN; LACTULOSE; LIPID METABOLISM; MALE; PROTEINS;

EID: 0142091283     PISSN: 02692813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2036.2003.01750.x     Document Type: Article

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