13C-Breath testing in animals: theory, applications, and future directions

Journal of Comparative Physiology B: Biochemical, Systemic, and Environmental Physiology

Volumn 186, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 265-285

  McCue, Marshall D ^a   Welch, Kenneth C ^b  

^a ST MARY'S UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Amino acids; Bioenergetics; Carbohydrate metabolism; Digestion; Disease; Exercise; Fatty acids; Flight; Lipid metabolism; Metabolic fuel; Metabolic tracers; Metabolism; Nutrition; Protein metabolism; Starvation

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE; STARCH;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL FOOD; BREATH ANALYSIS; DIET; DIET RESTRICTION; HUMAN; LIPID METABOLISM; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT; PROCEDURES; TEMPERATURE;

AMINO ACIDS; ANIMAL NUTRITIONAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; ANIMALS; BREATH TESTS; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON ISOTOPES; DIET; FASTING; HUMANS; LIPID METABOLISM; PLANTS; STARCH; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84961061948     PISSN: 01741578     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00360-015-0950-4     Document Type: Review

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