Is the Time for Absorption and Oxidation of 13C-Octanoate Really Negligible in the Gastric Emptying Breath Test?

Digestive Diseases and Sciences

Volumn 51, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 2145-2146

  Sanaka, Masaki ^a   Yamamoto, Takatsugu ^a   Kuyama, Yasushi ^a  

^a TEIKYO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

13CO2 Excretion; Breath Test; Excretion Curve; Gastric Emptying; Octanoate

Indexed keywords

CARBON; OCTANOIC ACID; OCTANOIC ACID DERIVATIVE;

BREATH ANALYSIS; HUMAN; INTESTINE ABSORPTION; LETTER; LIVER; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PHYSIOLOGY; STOMACH EMPTYING; TIME;

BREATH TESTS; CARBON ISOTOPES; GASTRIC EMPTYING; HUMANS; INTESTINAL ABSORPTION; LIVER; OCTANOIC ACIDS; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33846956151     PISSN: 01632116     EISSN: 15732568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10620-006-9392-x     Document Type: Letter

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