Developing a quantitative approach for determining the in vitro prebiotic potential of dietary oligosaccharides

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 236, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 153-159

  Vulevic, Jelena ^a   Rastall, Robert A ^a   Gibson, Glenn R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

max, maximum specific growth rate; Ar, rate of substrate assimilation; MPE, measure of the prebiotic effect; PI, prebiotic index; PIm, modified prebiotic index; SCFA, short chain fatty acids

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID; BUTYRIC ACID; CARBOHYDRATE; LACTIC ACID; OLIGOSACCHARIDE; PREBIOTIC AGENT; PROPIONIC ACID;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BIFIDOBACTERIUM; DIET; FERMENTATION; HEALTH; IN VITRO STUDY; LACTOBACILLUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

ACETATE-COA LIGASE; BIFIDOBACTERIUM; BUTYRATES; DIETARY SUCROSE; FECES; FERMENTATION; GALACTANS; HUMANS; INTESTINES; LACTIC ACID; LACTOBACILLUS; MANNANS; OLIGOSACCHARIDES; PLANT GUMS; PROBIOTICS; PROPIONATES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BIFIDOBACTERIUM; LACTOBACILLUS;

EID: 2942707593     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.femsle.2004.05.036     Document Type: Article

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