Environmental Enteric Dysfunction is Associated with Carnitine Deficiency and Altered Fatty Acid Oxidation

EBioMedicine

Volumn 17, Issue , 2017, Pages 57-66

  Semba, Richard D ^a   Trehan, Indi ^b   Li, Ximin ^c   Moaddel, Ruin ^d   Ordiz, M Isabel ^b   Maleta, Kenneth M ^e   Kraemer, Klaus ^c,f   Shardell, Michelle ^d   Ferrucci, Luigi ^d   Manary, Mark ^b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MALAWI   (Malawi)

^f SIGHT AND LIFE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Acylcarnitines; Carnitine; Environmental enteric dysfunction; Fatty acid oxidation; Hippurate; Polyphenols; Tryptophan; Urea cycle

Indexed keywords

ACYLCARNITINE; CITRULLINE; CYSTATHIONINE; GAMMA BUTYROBETAINE; HIPPURIC ACID; HOMOCITRULLINE; INDOLELACTATE; LACTULOSE; MANNITOL; ODD CHAIN FATTY ACID; ORNITHINE; POLYPHENOL; POLYPHENOL METABOLITE; SEROTONIN; SULFUR AMINO ACID; TRIMETHYLAMINE OXIDE; TRYPTOPHAN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CARNITINE; FATTY ACID;

AMINO ACID METABOLISM; ARTICLE; CARNITINE DEFICIENCY; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM DISEASE; DUAL SUGAR ABSORPTION TEST; ENVIRONMENTAL ENTERIC DYSFUNCTION; FATTY ACID OMEGA OXIDATION; FATTY ACID OXIDATION; FEMALE; FUNCTION TEST; HUMAN; INFANT; INTESTINE FLORA; INTESTINE FUNCTION; INTESTINE MUCOSA PERMEABILITY; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; MALAWI; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIAL STATUS; UREA CYCLE; BLOOD; DEFICIENCY; ENTERITIS; ENVIRONMENT; INTESTINE ABSORPTION; MALABSORPTION SYNDROMES; METABOLISM; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PATHOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SMALL INTESTINE;

CARNITINE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ENTERITIS; ENVIRONMENT; FATTY ACIDS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INTESTINAL ABSORPTION; INTESTINE, SMALL; MALABSORPTION SYNDROMES; MALAWI; MALE; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; POLYPHENOLS;

EID: 85009889645     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23523964     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ebiom.2017.01.026     Document Type: Article

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