Age-dependencies in the process of enteric absorption.
Founded upon experimental and theoretical investigation at age-dependence of the absorping system in human beings is analysed. Starting from a compartment model the absorption, velocity of absorption and effectivity of absorption are defined in the physical sense. The experimental investigations results in a general decrease of the velocity of all the processes in the absorping system with increasing age. This is the reason for a temporal changed kinetic behaviour of aged systems. By comparison between young and aged systems with reference to their kinetic properties we find the following results: With increasing age we observe a decrease of the velocity of absorption and of the effectivity of absorption, but with regard to the quantity of intestinal absorption not a difference between young and aged is pointed out.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000375:Aging; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D006801:Humans; D007408:Intestinal Absorption; D007700:Kinetics; D008875:Middle Aged; D008954:Models, Biological; D014994:Xylose / Q000097:blood
D014994:Xylose