Breakfasts of lentils or wholemeal bread of identical carbohydrate content were taken by
seven healthy volunteers. The lentils produced a significant 71%(p< 0.001) reduction in the …

Differences in pancreatic and gut-hormone release between breast-fed and bottle-fed
infants have not been documented although these hormones may play a key role in …

Fifty-gram carbohydrate tolerance tests were performed on healthy volunteers to test the
activity and specificity of an α-glucoside hydrolase inhibitor, acarbose (BAY g 5421). Two …

The treatment of obesity by intestinal bypass provides a unique model for the investigation of
gut hormone release from the functionally deranged bowel. We have examined the …

Bombesin, a peptide with widespread biological actions, has been demonstrated in human
tissues by immunological methods. To investigate its effect in man, synthetic bombesin was …

To gain some insights about the possible cumulative metabolic effect after a high-fibre meal,
6 subjects took two 80 g oral glucose loads, 4 h apart. Addition of 22.3 g guar to the first load …

Patients with cœliac disease have a highly significant reduction in the release of secretin
and gastric inhibitory polypeptide from the upper small intestine, but a greatly increased …

A mother and her son who have lipoprotein phenotype I are described. They differed from
subjects with lipoprotein lipase deficiency in that lipoprotein lipase was present in adipose …

Concentrations of various gut hormones were measured after a test breakfast in eight
patients with severe tropical malabsorption and 12 controls. The patients with tropical …

Male Wistar rats received three different types of small intestinal surgery. Two groups of rats
had either 10 or 20 cm of lower ileum transposed to mid-duodenum. A third comparison …