caa a22 4500 386322473 CHVBK 20180307111631.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198809 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1079/BJN19880094 doi S0007114588000959 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1079/BJN19880094 Fermentation of wheat bran and gum arabic in rats fed on an elemental diet [Elektronische Daten] 1. Gum arabic and wheat bran were added to an elemental diet (100 g/kg) in order to study their metabolism in the caeca of adult male albino Wistar rats. 2. Dry stool weight (g/d) over 12 weeks was 0.70 (SE 0.05) on the elemental control diet. Wheat bran increased mean dry stool weight to 1.09 (SE 0.08), an increase of 56 %. There was no significant difference between faecal weights (0.65 (SE 0.08)) of the gum-arabic-supplemented group and the unsupplemented group. 3. Wet caecal-sac weight, dry caecal-contents weight, and faecal and caecal bacterial mass (measured by 2,6-diaminopimelic acid) all increased significantly with the gum-arabic-supplemented diet but not with the wheatbran-supplemented diet. 4. Total short-chain fatty acids (mostly acetate) increased in the caecum and faeces with the gum-arabic-supplemented diet but not with the wheat-bran-supplemented diet. 5. Breath hydrogen and methane production decreased to negligible amounts over the 12 weeks of the experiment. Copyright © The Nutrition Society 1988 Walter D. J. Wolfson Laboratories, Gastrointestinal Unit, Department of Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh EH4 2XU Eastwood M. A. Wolfson Laboratories, Gastrointestinal Unit, Department of Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh EH4 2XU Brydon W. G. Wolfson Laboratories, Gastrointestinal Unit, Department of Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh EH4 2XU Elton R. A. Medical Statistics Unit, Faculty of Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Teviot Place, Edinburgh EH8 9AG British Journal of Nutrition Cambridge University Press 60/2(1988-09), 225-232 0007-1145 60:2<225 1988 60 BJN https://doi.org/10.1079/BJN19880094 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1079/BJN19880094 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Walter D. J. Wolfson Laboratories, Gastrointestinal Unit, Department of Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh EH4 2XU NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Eastwood M. A. Wolfson Laboratories, Gastrointestinal Unit, Department of Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh EH4 2XU NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Brydon W. G. Wolfson Laboratories, Gastrointestinal Unit, Department of Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh EH4 2XU NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Elton R. A. Medical Statistics Unit, Faculty of Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Teviot Place, Edinburgh EH8 9AG NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- British Journal of Nutrition Cambridge University Press 60/2(1988-09), 225-232 0007-1145 60:2<225 1988 60 BJN CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge