Disaccharidase Deficiency as a Cause of Unexplained Functional Gastrointestinal Disorder
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Disaccharidase deficiency in man.
IT IS STILL commonly taught in physiological textbooks that carbohydrates are completely digested in the lumen of the bowel by the action of pancreatic juices and the succus entericus. This is untrue and in fact the enzymes of the succus entericus probably represent desquamated intestinal cells and are not present in sufficient quantitity to be of physiological significance, while the final sta...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Neurogastroenterology and Motility
سال: 2020
ISSN: 2093-0879,2093-0887
DOI: 10.5056/jnm20130