Article
Disaccharide digestion: clinical and molecular aspects.
Clinical gastroenterology and hepatology : the official clinical practice journal of the American Gastroenterological Association - 1 Mar 2006
Robayo-Torres Claudia C, Quezada-Calvillo Roberto, Nichols Buford L
Abstract excerpt
Sugars normally are absorbed in the small intestine. When carbohydrates are malabsorbed, the osmotic load produced by the high amount of low molecular weight sugars and partially digested starches in the small intestine can cause symptoms of intestinal distention, rapid peristalsis, and diarrhea. Colonic bacteria normally metabolize proximally malabsorbed dietary carbohydrate through fermentation to small fatty...
Topics
- Digestion
- Disaccharidases
- Disaccharides
- Humans
- Malabsorption Syndromes
- Mutation