Nutrition
Volume 21, Issue 9 , Pages 914-919 , September 2005

Comparison of the amount of pectin in the human terminal ileum with the amount of orally administered pectin

  • Daisuke Saito, M.D. Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Hygiene, Hirosaki University School of Medicine, Aomori, Japan
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  • Shigeyuki Nakaji, M.D., Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Hygiene, Hirosaki University School of Medicine, Aomori, Japan
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +81-172-395-037; fax: +81-172-395-038.
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  • Shinsaku Fukuda, M.D., Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • First Department of Internal Medicine, Hirosaki University School of Medicine, Aomori, Japan
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  • Tadashi Shimoyama, M.D., Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • First Department of Internal Medicine, Hirosaki University School of Medicine, Aomori, Japan
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  • Juichi Sakamoto, M.D., Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • First Department of Internal Medicine, Hirosaki University School of Medicine, Aomori, Japan
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  • Kazuo Sugawara, M.D., Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Hygiene, Hirosaki University School of Medicine, Aomori, Japan

Received 9 April 2004 ,Accepted 18 January 2005.

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 This study was supported by a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research from the Ministry of Culture and Science of Japan (grants 11307005 and 16659179).Drs. Saito and Nakaji were responsible for the entire study (design, experiment, and data analysis), and Drs. Fukuda, Shimoyama, Sakamoto, and Sugawara assisted with the human experiment.

PII: S0899-9007(05)00157-7

doi: 10.1016/j.nut.2005.01.005

Nutrition
Volume 21, Issue 9 , Pages 914-919 , September 2005

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