In Vitro Assessment of the Bioactivity of Food Oligosaccharides

Food Oligosaccharides: Production, Analysis and Bioactivity

Volumn 9781118426494, Issue , 2014, Pages 217-237

  Venema, Koen ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bioactivity; Gut microbiota; Immune system; in vitro; Oligosaccharides; Reporter cell

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; BIOMOLECULES; CELL CULTURE; FATTY ACIDS; FERMENTATION; GENE EXPRESSION; METABOLITES; OLIGOSACCHARIDES; PATTERN RECOGNITION;

CELL LINES; GUT MICROBIOTA; IMMUNE CELLS; IN-VITRO; MICROBIAL METABOLITES; PATTERN RECOGNITION RECEPTORS; REPORTER ASSAY; REPORTER CELL; SHORTER CHAINS; VITRO FERMENTATION;

BIOACTIVITY;

EID: 84907824271     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118817360.ch13     Document Type: Chapter

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