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Intestinal permeability: the cellobiose/mannitol test
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Editor,—I should like to bring to your attention a conceptual error in the paper by Danieleet al (OpenUrlCrossRefPubMedWeb of Science) regarding the cellobiose/mannitol test. The authors suggest that improvement in the cellobiose/mannitol ratio reflects improvement in permeability from the use of oral glutamine. However, only mannitol excretion improved significantly with glutamine; cellobiose excretion remained unchanged. As …