Partially hydrolyzed guar gum increases intestinal absorption of iron in growing rats with iron deficiency anemia

Clinical Nutrition

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 851-858

  de Cássia Freitas, Karine ^a   Amancio, Olga Maria Silvério ^a   Ferreira Novo, Neil ^b,c   Fagundes Neto, Ulysses ^a   de Morais, Mauro Batista ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b Faculty of Medicine of Santo Amaro (UNISA)   (United States)

^c Faculty of Medicine of Sorocaba (PUC SP)   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Dietary fiber; Intestinal absorption; Iron deficiency anemia; Rats

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; BIOTIN; CALCIUM; CASEIN; CELLULOSE; CHOLINE DERIVATIVE; COLECALCIFEROL; CYANOCOBALAMIN; CYSTINE; FERRIC CITRATE; FOLIC ACID; GUAR GUM; IRON; MINERAL; NICOTINIC ACID; PANTOTHENIC ACID; PHOSPHORUS; POTASSIUM; PYRIDOXINE; RETINOL; RIBOFLAVIN; SODIUM; SOYBEAN OIL; STARCH; SUCROSE; SULFUR; TERT BUTYLHYDROQUINONE; THIAMINE; UNINDEXED DRUG; VITAMIN K GROUP;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY GROWTH; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIETARY FIBER; DIETARY INTAKE; FOOD COMPOSITION; HYDROLYSIS; INTESTINE ABSORPTION; IRON ABSORPTION; IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA; MALE; NONHUMAN; RAT;

ANEMIA, IRON-DEFICIENCY; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL AVAILABILITY; CELLULOSE; DIETARY FIBER; GALACTANS; HEMOGLOBINS; HYDROLYSIS; INTESTINAL ABSORPTION; IRON, DIETARY; LIVER; MALE; MANNANS; PLANT GUMS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

EID: 33748891062     PISSN: 02615614     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clnu.2006.02.010     Document Type: Article

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