Prebiotics: Definition, Types, Sources, Mechanisms, and Clinical Applications

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Prebiotics: Definition, Types, Sources, Mechanisms, and Clinical Applications

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Prebiotics are a group of nutrients that are degraded by gut microbiota. Their relationship with human overall health has been an area of increasing interest in recent years. They can feed the intestinal microbiota, and their degradation products are short-chain fatty acids that are released into blood circulation, consequently, affecting not only the gastrointestinal tracts but also other distant organs. Fructo-oligosaccharides and galacto-oligosaccharides are the two important groups of pre...

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2019

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Davani-Davari, Dorna / Negahdaripour, Manica / Karimzadeh, Iman / Seifan, Mostafa / Mohkam, Milad / Masoumi, Seyed Jalil / Berenjian, Aydin / Ghasemi, Younes

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https://hdl.handle.net/10289/12577

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Science & Technology / Life Sciences & Biomedicine / Food Science & Technology / prebiotics / gut microbiota / short-chain fatty acids / fructo-oligosaccharides / galacto-oligosaccharides / INULIN-TYPE FRUCTANS / GALACTO-OLIGOSACCHARIDE PRODUCTION / OLIGOFRUCTOSE-ENRICHED INULIN / HIGH-CONTENT FRUCTOOLIGOSACCHARIDES / PORTAL-SYSTEMIC ENCEPHALOPATHY / CHRONIC HEPATIC-ENCEPHALOPATHY / BUTYRATE-PRODUCING BACTERIA / HUMAN COLONIC MICROBIOTA / LARGE-SCALE PRODUCTION / MIXED-ENZYME SYSTEM

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