Small bowel review: Part I.
Significant advances have been made in the study of the small bowel. Part I of this two-part review of the small bowel examines carbohydrates, including brush border membrane hydrolysis and sugar transport; amino acids, dipeptides, proteins and food allergy, with a focus on glutamine, peptides and macromolecules, and nucleosides, nucleotides and polyamines; salt and water absorption, and diarrhea, including antidiarrheal therapy and oral rehydration treatment; lipids (digestion and absorption, fatty acid binding proteins, intracellular metabolism, lipoproteins and bile acids); and metals (eg, iron) and vitamins.
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Department of Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton. alan.thomson@ualberta.ca
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D000818:Animals; D004063:Digestion; D006801:Humans; D007421:Intestine, Small / Q000378:metabolism / Q000502:physiology*