Intestine: Organ or apparatus?

Digestive Diseases

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 92-95

  Gasbarrini, Giovanni ^a   Montalto, Massimo ^a   Santoro, Luca ^a   Curigliano, Valentina ^a   D'Onofrio, Ferruccio ^a   Gallo, Antonella ^a   Visca, Dina ^a   Gasbarrini, Antonio ^a  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Absorption; Digestion; Intestine; Microflora

Indexed keywords

BILE SALT; ELECTROLYTE;

BACTERIAL CELL; DIGESTION; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; DRUG ABSORPTION; ENDOCRINE CELL; ENDOCRINE FUNCTION; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT FUNCTION; GENE EXPRESSION; HOST RESISTANCE; HUMAN; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNOSTIMULATION; INTESTINE; INTESTINE ABSORPTION; INTESTINE CELL; INTESTINE FLORA; INTESTINE FUNCTION; INTESTINE MUCOSA; LARGE INTESTINE; NUTRIENT; PHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SMALL INTESTINE; WATER ABSORPTION;

HUMANS; INTESTINAL ABSORPTION; INTESTINES;

EID: 42449111619     PISSN: 02572753     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000116765     Document Type: Review

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