Dietary oligosaccharides increase colonic weight and the amount but not concentration of bacterially synthesized folate in the colon of piglets

Journal of Nutrition

Volumn 141, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 366-372

  Aufreiter, Susanne ^a   Kim, Jae H ^b   O'Connor, Deborah L ^a  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^b UCSD MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOLIC ACID; GALACTOSE OLIGOSACCHARIDE; HOMOCYSTEINE; INULIN; MALTODEXTRIN; OLIGOSACCHARIDE; PREBIOTIC AGENT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MILK; BACTERIAL LOAD; BODY WEIGHT; CARBOHYDRATE ABSORPTION; COLON; COLON FLORA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DIETARY INTAKE; ERYTHROCYTE; FEEDING; KIDNEY; LIVER; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; ORGAN WEIGHT; PIGLET; VITAMIN BLOOD LEVEL;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL LOAD; BIFIDOBACTERIUM; COLON; ERYTHROCYTES; FOLIC ACID; FOLIC ACID DEFICIENCY; GASTROINTESTINAL CONTENTS; HOMOCYSTEINE; INULIN; KIDNEY; LACTOBACILLALES; LIVER; MALE; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; OLIGOSACCHARIDES; ORGAN SIZE; PREBIOTICS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SUS SCROFA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 79951963397     PISSN: 00223166     EISSN: 15416100     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3945/jn.110.135343     Document Type: Article

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