Effects of short- and long-chain fructans on large intestinal physiology and development of preneoplastic lesions in rats

Handbook of Carbohydrate Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 781-798

  Poulsen, Morten ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

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