RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Polyethylene glycol 4000 as a continuously administered non-absorbable faecal marker for metabolic balance studies in human subjects
JF Gut
JO Gut
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and British Society of Gastroenterology
SP 654
OP 660
DO 10.1136/gut.12.8.654
VO 12
IS 8
A1 Wilkinson, R.
YR 1971
UL http://gut.bmj.com/content/12/8/654.abstract
AB The use of polyethylene glycol 4000 as a non-absorbable, continuously fed faecal marker is described. The intestinal handling and transit of polyethylene glycol is compared with that of chromium sesquioxide and barium sulphate. Polyethylene glycol is an acceptable non-absorbable faecal marker for calcium, phosphorus, and fatty acids, and has several features which commend its use in preference to insoluble chromium sesquioxide and barium sulphate particularly when marking water-soluble dietary constituents.