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Intestinal permeability: the cellobiose/mannitol test
  1. R M CRAIG
  1. Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology
  2. Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois 60611, USA
  3. r-craig@northwestern.edu

https://doi.org/10.1136/gut.49.2.312

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    Editor,—I should like to bring to your attention a conceptual error in the paper by Danieleet al ((2001) Gut 48:28–33; 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 …

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