The sweet life: Diet sugar concentration influences paracellular glucose absorption

Biology Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 530-533

  Napier, Kathryn R ^a   Purchase, Cromwell ^b   McWhorter, Todd J ^a   Nicolson, Susan W ^b   Fleming, Patricia A ^a  

^a MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Glucose absorption; Honeyeater; Nectarivore; Paracellular permeability; Passerine; Sunbird

Indexed keywords

LEVO GLUCOSE;

ABSORPTION; BIOAVAILABILITY; BIOLOGICAL UPTAKE; CELL ORGANELLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIET; DIGESTION; GLUCOSE; NECTARIVORY; PASSERINE; PERMEABILITY; PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIRD; CONTROLLED STUDY; GLUCOSE ABSORPTION; GLUCOSE TRANSPORT; INTESTINE; NONHUMAN; OSMOLALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES;

AVES; MELIPHAGIDAE; PASSERIFORMES; PHYLIDONYRIS NOVAEHOLLANDIAE;

EID: 51549087414     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2008.0253     Document Type: Article

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