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Nitrogen metabolism in the gut.
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All three of the major human nitrogenous waste products--urea, creatinine, and uric acid--are significantly degraded by intestinal bacteria, and metabolites of these complex heterocyclic nitrogen compounds may well turn out to play a role in uremic toxicity.About:
This article is published in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.The article was published on 1978-09-01. It has received 50 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Urea & Intestinal absorption.read more
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Short chain fatty acids in the human colon.
TL;DR: The human colon contains a luxuriant mixed culture of bacteria, which is in the main strictly anaerobic, the end-products being primarily the short chain, or volatile, fatty acids, acetic, propionic, and butyric acid.
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Natural Abundance Variations in Stable Isotopes and their Potential Uses in Animal Physiological Ecology
TL;DR: It is argued that animal physiological ecologists can benefit from including the measurement of naturally occurring stable isotopes in their battery of techniques, and can make an important contribution to the emerging field of stable isotope in biology by testing experimentally the plethora of assumptions upon which the techniques rely.
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Eating for two: how metabolism establishes interspecies interactions in the gut
TL;DR: This work travels down a carbohydrate catabolic pathway common to many species of Bacteroides, highlighting the interspecies interactions established (often inevitably) at its key steps and discusses the metabolic considerations in maintaining the stability of host-associated microbial communities.
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Comparison of rifaximin and lactitol in the treatment of acute hepatic encephalopathy: results of a randomized, double-blind, double-dummy, controlled clinical trial
Antoni Mas,Juan Rodés,Lourdes Sunyer,Luis Rodrigo,Ramon Planas,Victor Vargas,Lluis Castells,Dolores Rodrı́guez-Martı́nez,Conrado M. Fernández-Rodríguez,Ignasi Coll,Albert Pardo +10 more
TL;DR: Rifaximin may be considered a useful and safe alternative therapy to lactitol in the treatment of acute hepatic encephalopathy in cirrhosis and a significantly better evolution of the PSE index was observed in the rifaxim in two components of the index: EEG abnormalities and ammonia levels.
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Fermentation in the Rumen and Human Large Intestine
TL;DR: The microbial ecosystem and its interaction with the host are described, along with recent attempts to manipulate the composition and activity of the microbial community by adding antibiotics and other chemicals to ruminant diets.