Nutrition
Volume 24, Issue 4 , Pages 366-374 , April 2008

Histone-deacetylase inhibition and butyrate formation: Fecal slurry incubations with apple pectin and apple juice extracts

  • Markus Waldecker, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Food Chemistry and Toxicology, University of Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany
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  • Tanja Kautenburger, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Food Chemistry and Toxicology, University of Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany
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  • Heike Daumann, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Food Chemistry and Toxicology, University of Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany
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  • Selveraju Veeriah, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Food Toxicology, Friedrich-Schiller-University, Jena, Germany
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  • Frank Will, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Geisenheim Research Center, Department of Wine Analysis and Beverage Technology, Geisenheim, Germany
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  • Helmut Dietrich, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Geisenheim Research Center, Department of Wine Analysis and Beverage Technology, Geisenheim, Germany
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  • Beatrice Louise Pool-Zobel, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Food Toxicology, Friedrich-Schiller-University, Jena, Germany
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  • Dieter Schrenk, M.D., Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Food Chemistry and Toxicology, University of Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +49-631-2053217; fax: +49-631-2054398.

Received 21 September 2007 ,Accepted 18 December 2007.

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 This work received financial support by a grant from the State of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

PII: S0899-9007(07)00390-5

doi: 10.1016/j.nut.2007.12.013

Nutrition
Volume 24, Issue 4 , Pages 366-374 , April 2008

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