Impact of Consumption of Oligosaccharide-Containing Biscuits on the Fecal Microbiota of Humans

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 70, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 2129-2136

  Tannock, Gerald W ^a   Munro, Karen ^a   Bibiloni, Rodrigo ^a   Simon, Mary A ^a   Hargreaves, Patrick ^a   Gopal, Pramod ^b   Harmsen, Hermie ^c   Welling, Gjalt ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b FONTERRA RESEARCH CENTRE   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL CULTURE; CLONING; DNA SEQUENCES; FLUORESCENCE; OLIGOMERS; POLYSACCHARIDES;

OLIGOSACCHARIDES; TRANSCRIPTION;

MICROBIOLOGY;

BETA GALACTOSIDASE; FRUCTOSE; GALACTOSE; OLIGOSACCHARIDE; RNA 16S; SINGLE STRANDED DNA;

MICROBIOLOGY;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BIFIDOBACTERIUM; BIFIDOBACTERIUM ADOLESCENTIS; BREAD; COLINSELLA AEROFACIENS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; DNA SEQUENCE; ECOSYSTEM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FECES MICROFLORA; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; FOOD INTAKE; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID ANALYSIS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA EXTRACTION;

BASE SEQUENCE; BIFIDOBACTERIUM; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FECES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MALE; OLIGOSACCHARIDES; PROBIOTICS; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BIFIDOBACTERIUM; BIFIDOBACTERIUM ADOLESCENTIS; MICROBIOTA; UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE;

EID: 9644267200     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.70.4.2129-2136.2004     Document Type: Article

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