How to manipulate the microbiota: Prebiotics

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 902, Issue , 2016, Pages 119-142

  Louis, Petra ^a   Flint, Harry J ^a   Michel, Catherine ^b  

^a ROWETT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b HÔTEL DIEU   (France)

Author keywords

Appetite regulation; Competition for substrates; Dietary fibre; Fermentation; Health effect; Immune functions; Intestinal barrier; Microbiota composition; Mineral absorption; Nondigestible carbohydrates; Oligosaccharides; Resistant starch; Short chain fatty acids

Indexed keywords

FLAVANOL DERIVATIVE; FRUCTAN; GALACTOSE OLIGOSACCHARIDE; OLIGOSACCHARIDE; PREBIOTIC AGENT; STARCH; PROBIOTIC AGENT;

BONE DENSITY; CARBOHYDRATE ANALYSIS; DIETARY FIBER; FOOD INTAKE; GLUCOSE METABOLISM; HUMAN; IMMUNOMODULATION; INTESTINE FLORA; INTESTINE FUNCTION; LACTIC ACID BACTERIUM; LIPID METABOLISM; METABOLIC REGULATION; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MINERAL METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; PERMEABILITY BARRIER; PREVENTIVE MEDICINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECRETION; SPECIES COMPOSITION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STOMACH PH; ADMINISTRATION AND DOSAGE; ANALYSIS; COLON; FUNCTIONAL FOOD; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PHYSIOLOGY;

COLON; DIETARY FIBER; FRUCTANS; FUNCTIONAL FOOD; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; GASTROINTESTINAL MICROBIOME; HUMANS; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; OLIGOSACCHARIDES; PREBIOTICS; PROBIOTICS; STARCH;

EID: 84978969852     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: 22148019     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-31248-4_9     Document Type: Chapter

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