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Original Article

Short-Chain Fatty Acids and Succinate in Feces of Healthy Human Volunteers and Their Correlation with Anaerobe Cultural Counts

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Pages 672-676 | Received 15 Dec 1986, Accepted 25 Feb 1987, Published online: 08 Jul 2009
 

Abstract

Short-chain fatty acids (SCFA) and succinate in fresh feces from 10 healthy human volunteers were detected with gas-liquid chromatography and were correlated with their fecal cultural counts. The SCFA content of feces did not change significantly after freezing, but the cultural counts of total anaerobes and bifidobacteria showed significant changes (0.001 < P < 0.01). A significant negative correlation (r = -0.78; 0.01 < P < 0.02) was found between the bifidobacteria cultural counts and the succinic acid concentration in fresh feces, which disappeared after freezing of the samples. Because of the significant differences in cultural counts and the shift in significant correlations after freezing, it is important to use fresh fecal samples for these correlation studies. Lactic acid and i-caproic acid were not found in the fecal samples. The results show that SCFA and organic acid concentrations cannot replace (an)aerobe cultural counts in fecal flora studies of healthy human volunteers because of the low rate of significant correlations between these two.

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