EB 2017 Article: Interpretation of the lactulose:mannitol test in rural Malawian children at risk for perturbations in intestinal permeability

Experimental Biology and Medicine

Volumn 243, Issue 8, 2018, Pages 677-683

  Ordiz, M Isabel ^a   Davitt, Caroline ^a   Stephenson, Kevin ^a   Agapova, Sophia ^a   Divala, Oscar ^b   Shaikh, Nurmohammad ^a   Manary, Mark J ^a,b,c  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MALAWI   (Malawi)

^c BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

dual sugar absorption test; Environmental enteric dysfunction; gut health; lactulose:mannitol test; paracellular permeability

Indexed keywords

LACTULOSE; MANNITOL;

ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; CALORIC INTAKE; CHILD; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DUAL SUGAR ABSORPTION TEST; FEMALE; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; INFANT; INTESTINE FUNCTION; INTESTINE MUCOSA PERMEABILITY; LACTULOSE MANNITOL TEST; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; MAIZE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALAWI; MALE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SMALL BOWEL LENGTH; SMALL INTESTINE DISEASE; URINALYSIS; ANIMAL; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; EVALUATION STUDY; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; INTESTINE ABSORPTION; PATHOLOGY; PERMEABILITY; PROCEDURES; RURAL POPULATION; SMALL INTESTINE;

ANIMALS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIAGNOSTIC TESTS, ROUTINE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; HUMANS; INFANT; INTESTINAL ABSORPTION; INTESTINE, SMALL; LACTULOSE; MALAWI; MANNITOL; PERMEABILITY; RURAL POPULATION;

EID: 85045426537     PISSN: 15353702     EISSN: 15353699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1535370218768508     Document Type: Article

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