Suppressive Effect of Viscous Dietary Fiber on Elevations of Uric Acid in Serum and Urine Induced by Dietary RNA in Rats is Associated with Strength of Viscosity

International Journal for Vitamin and Nutrition Research

Volumn 73, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 369-376

  Koguchi, Takashi ^a   Nakajima, Hisao ^b   Koguchi, Hiromi ^a,c   Wada, Masahiro ^d   Yamamoto, Yuji ^a   Innami, Satoshi ^a   Maekawa, Akio ^a   Tadokoro, Tadahiro ^a  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (Japan)

^b Tohoku Women's Junior College   (Japan)

^c Nagatanien Corporation   (Japan)

^d JOSAI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Dietary RNA; Fecal RNA excretion; Rats; RNase A; Serum uric acid concentration; Viscosity; Viscous dietary fiber

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE; ADENOSINE PHOSPHATE; ALGAROBA; ALLANTOIN; CELLULOSE; GUAR GUM; GUM ARABIC; INULIN; KARAYA GUM; PECTIN; RIBONUCLEASE A; RNA; URIC ACID; XANTHAN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET; DIETARY FIBER; DIETARY INTAKE; FECES; HYDROLYSIS; JEJUNUM; MALE; NONHUMAN; RAT; RAT STRAIN; RNA DEGRADATION; RNA METABOLISM; URIC ACID BLOOD LEVEL; URIC ACID URINE LEVEL; VISCOSITY; WEIGHT GAIN;

ACACIA SENEGAL; ANIMALIA; CYAMOPSIS TETRAGONOLOBA; PHASEOLUS (ANGIOSPERM);

EID: 0242350165     PISSN: 03009831     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1024/0300-9831.73.5.369     Document Type: Article

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