Chickpea-supplemented diet alters the gut microbiome and enhances gut barrier integrity in C57Bl/6 male mice

Journal of Functional Foods

Volumn 38, Issue , 2017, Pages 663-674

  Monk, Jennifer M ^a,b   Lepp, Dion ^a   Wu, Wenqing ^a   Graf, Daniela ^a,b   McGillis, Laurel H ^a,b   Hussain, Adeel ^a,b   Carey, Christine ^a   Robinson, Lindsay E ^b   Liu, Ronghua ^a   Tsao, Rong ^a   Brummer, Yolanda ^a   Tosh, Susan M ^a,c   Power, Krista A ^a,b  

^a GUELPH RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTRE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Chickpea; Gut barrier integrity; Microbiota; Pulse; SCFAs

Indexed keywords

EID: 85012012682     PISSN: 17564646     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jff.2017.02.002     Document Type: Article

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