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A Human Volunteer Study to Determine the Prebiotic Effects of Lactulose Powder on Human Colonic Microbiota

Kieran M. Tuohy Food Microbial Sciences Unit, School of Food Biosciences, The University of Reading, Reading, UK
,
Cherie J. Ziemer
,
Annett Klinder Department of Nutritional Toxicology, Institute of Nutrition, Friedrich-Schiller-University of Jena, Dornburger Strasse 25, 07743 Jena, Germany
,
Yvonne Knöbel
,
Beatrice L. Pool-Zobel
&
Glenn R. Gibson
Pages 165-173 | Published online: 11 Jul 2009

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