Rapid determination of short-chain fatty acids in colonic contents and faeces of humans and rats by acidified water-extraction and direct-injection gas chromatography

Biomedical Chromatography

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 674-682

  Zhao, Guohua ^a,b   Nyman, Margareta ^a   Jönsson, Jan Åke ^a  

^a CHEMICAL CENTER   (Sweden)

^b SOUTHWEST UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Colonic contents; Direct injection; Faeces; Gas chromatography; Short chain fatty acids (SCFAs); Water extraction

Indexed keywords

BUTYRIC ACID; CHAINS; CHROMATOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS; DIRECT INJECTION; EXTRACTION; GLASS; PROPIONIC ACID; RATS; SATURATED FATTY ACIDS; WATER INJECTION;

ACIDIFIED WATERS; CHROMATOGRAPHIC METHODS; COLONIC CONTENT; FAECAL SAMPLES; FECES; PHYSIOLOGICAL EFFECTS; SHORT-CHAIN FATTY ACID; SHORTER CHAINS; VALERIC ACIDS; WATER EXTRACTION;

GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY;

ACETIC ACID; BUTYRIC ACID DERIVATIVE; FORMIC ACID; GLASS; HEPTANOIC ACID DERIVATIVE; HEXANOIC ACID; PROPIONIC ACID; SHORT CHAIN FATTY ACID; VALERIC ACID; VALERIC ACID DERIVATIVE; WATER;

ACCURACY; ACIDIFICATION; ARTICLE; CAPILLARY CHROMATOGRAPHY; COLON; COLUMN CHROMATOGRAPHY; CONTAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIETARY FIBER; EXTRACTION; FATTY ACID ANALYSIS; FECES; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INJECTION; LINEAR SYSTEM; METHODOLOGY; NONHUMAN; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; RELIABILITY; SAMPLE; VALIDATION STUDY; WOOL;

EID: 33746936566     PISSN: 02693879     EISSN: 10990801     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bmc.580     Document Type: Article

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