The Small Intestine Converts Dietary Fructose into Glucose and Organic Acids

Cell Metabolism

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2018, Pages 351-361.e3

  Jang, Cholsoon ^a   Hui, Sheng ^a   Lu, Wenyun ^a   Cowan, Alexis J ^a   Morscher, Raphael J ^a   Lee, Gina ^b   Liu, Wei ^c   Tesz, Gregory J ^c   Birnbaum, Morris J ^c   Rabinowitz, Joshua D ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^c PFIZER INC   (United States)

Author keywords

flux; fructose; gut; isotope tracing; metabolic disease; metabolomics; microbiome; small intestine; sucrose; sugar

Indexed keywords

CARBOXYLIC ACID; FRUCTOSE; GLUCOSE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CARBOHYDRATE ABSORPTION; COLON; COLON FLORA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DUODENUM; FEEDING; FRUCTOSE METABOLISM; GLUCOSE INTAKE; ILEUM; INTESTINAL CLEARANCE; ISOTOPE TRACING; JEJUNUM; KIDNEY; LIVER; LIVER METABOLISM; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METABOLITE; MOUSE; MUSCLE; NONHUMAN; PANCREAS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMALL INTESTINE; SUGAR INTAKE; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; C57BL MOUSE; CARBOHYDRATE DIET; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; ISOTOPE LABELING; METABOLISM; METABOLOME; MICROFLORA;

ANIMALS; CARBOXYLIC ACIDS; DIETARY CARBOHYDRATES; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FRUCTOSE; GLUCOSE; INTESTINE, SMALL; ISOTOPE LABELING; LIVER; METABOLOME; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICROBIOTA; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 85042682549     PISSN: 15504131     EISSN: 19327420     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cmet.2017.12.016     Document Type: Article

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