Fructan extracts from wheat stem and barley grain stimulate large bowel fermentation in rats

Nutrition Research

Volumn 32, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 599-606

  Belobrajdic, Damien P ^a   Jenkins, Colin L D ^a   Bushell, Rhys ^a   Morell, Matthew K ^a   Bird, Anthony R ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bifidobacteria; Fatty acid; Fructans; Hordeum; Rats; Triticum

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID; BUTYRIC ACID; FRUCTAN; FRUCTOSE OLIGOSACCHARIDE; PROPIONIC ACID; SHORT CHAIN FATTY ACID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; BARLEY; BIFIDOBACTERIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FERMENTATION; FOOD COMPOSITION; FOOD INTAKE; GRAIN; LACTOBACILLUS; LARGE INTESTINE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PH; PLANT STEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; WHEAT;

ANIMALS; BIFIDOBACTERIUM; BUTYRIC ACID; CECUM; COLON; DIET; FATTY ACIDS, VOLATILE; FERMENTATION; FRUCTANS; HORDEUM; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; INTESTINE, LARGE; MALE; OLIGOSACCHARIDES; ORGAN SIZE; PLANT EXTRACTS; PLANT STEMS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEEDS; TRITICUM;

HORDEUM; RATTUS; TRITICUM; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 84865565560     PISSN: 02715317     EISSN: 18790739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nutres.2012.06.009     Document Type: Article

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