Breath Hydrogen Produced by Ingestion of Commercial Hydrogen Water and Milk

Biomarker Insights

Volumn 4, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Shimouchi, Akito ^a   Nose, Kazutoshi ^a   Yamaguchi, Makoto ^b   Ishiguro, Hiroshi ^b   Kondo, Takaharu ^b  

^a NATIONAL CEREBRAL AND CARDIOVASCULAR CENTER   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

breath hydrogen; colonic fermentation; hydrogen water; milk

Indexed keywords

EID: 85128487020     PISSN: None     EISSN: 11772719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4137/BMI.S2209     Document Type: Article

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