Gut function-enhancing properties and metabolic effects of dietary indigestible sugars in rodents and rabbits

Nutrients

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 8348-8365

  Xiao, Jin ^a   Metzler Zebeli, Barbara U ^a   Zebeli, Qendrim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

Author keywords

Cecal fermentation; Indigestible sugars; Mineral absorption; Rabbits; Rodent

Indexed keywords

ASCORBIC ACID; BILE ACID; CALCIUM; CARBOHYDRATE; DIFRUCTOSE ANHYDRIDE III; FRUCTOSE OLIGOSACCHARIDE; GALACTOSE OLIGOSACCHARIDE; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; INDIGESTIBLE SUGAR; INULIN; IRON; LAXATIVE; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; MAGNESIUM; MALTITOL; MANNANOLIGOSACCHARIDE; MANNITOL; MELIBIOSE; PREBIOTIC AGENT; SORBITOL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; XYLITOL; OLIGOSACCHARIDE; POLYSACCHARIDE; SUGAR ALCOHOL; SUGAR INTAKE;

BONE MINERAL; CARBOHYDRATE DIET; CECUM; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DIGESTION; ELECTROLYTE TRANSPORT; FECES; FERMENTATION; GLUCAGON BLOOD LEVEL; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; INSULIN RELEASE; INTESTINAL AVAILABILITY; INTESTINAL SECRETION; INTESTINE ABSORPTION; INTESTINE FLORA; INTESTINE FUNCTION; INTESTINE MUCOSA PERMEABILITY; INTESTINE PARAMETERS; INTESTINE TRANSIT TIME; LARGE INTESTINE; LIPID METABOLISM; MINERAL ABSORPTION; MINERAL INTAKE; NITROGEN METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; RABBIT; REVIEW; RODENT; TRIACYLGLYCEROL BLOOD LEVEL; ANIMAL; GASTROINTESTINAL TRANSIT; GUINEA PIG; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; INTESTINE; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PH; PHARMACOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT; SUGAR INTAKE;

ANIMALS; CECUM; DIETARY SUCROSE; DIGESTION; FERMENTATION; GASTROINTESTINAL MICROBIOME; GASTROINTESTINAL TRANSIT; GUINEA PIGS; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; INTESTINAL ABSORPTION; INTESTINES; LIPID METABOLISM; OLIGOSACCHARIDES; POLYSACCHARIDES; PREBIOTICS; RABBITS; RATS; SUGAR ALCOHOLS;

EID: 84942913271     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20726643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/nu7105397     Document Type: Review

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