Lowering of large bowel butyrate levels in healthy populations is unlikely to be beneficial

Journal of Nutrition

Volumn 145, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 1030-1031

  Conlon, Michael A ^a   Bird, Anthony R ^a   Clarke, Julie M ^a   Le Leu, Richard K ^a   Christophersen, Claus T ^a   Lockett, Trevor J ^a   Topping, David L ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; BUTYRIC ACID; PROBIOTIC AGENT;

DIETARY FIBER; DISEASE EXACERBATION; FECES; FERMENTATION; FOOD INTAKE; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; IRRITABLE COLON; LARGE INTESTINE; LETTER; ONCOGENE; RECTUM BIOPSY; RED MEAT; REGULATORY T LYMPHOCYTE; SUPPLEMENTATION; CHEMISTRY; ENDOSPORE-FORMING RODS AND COCCI; FEMALE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LACTOBACILLUS; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY;

BUTYRIC ACID; FECES; FEMALE; GRAM-POSITIVE ENDOSPORE-FORMING RODS; HUMANS; LACTOBACILLUS; MALE;

EID: 84929494361     PISSN: 00223166     EISSN: 15416100     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3945/jn.114.209460     Document Type: Letter

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