Although medium and high doses of lactulose are used routinely for the treatment of
constipation and hepatic encephalopathy, respectively, a wealth of evidence demonstrates …

Lactulose is a disaccharide used in clinical practice since 1957 and has since been tested in
the treatment of many human disorders, including chronic constipation, hepatic …

Lactulose, a disaccharide of galactose and fructose, used as a laxative or ammonia-
lowering drug and as a functional food ingredient, enhances growth of Bifidobacterium and …

Background Every year, high volumes of whey are producing by dairy industries, which
require significant capital investments to discard this highly reactive by-product and to …

The prebiotic effects of lactulose were monitored in a human feeding study. Prebiotics are
dietary carbohydrates that have a selective microbial metabolism in the gut, directed towards …

Lactulose, a galactose-fructose disaccharide, is made from the milk sugar lactose by heating
or isomerization processes. Lactulose is proposed to modulate gut microbiota and thus …

During the fermentation of lactulose, short-chain fatty acids are formed with consequent
lowering of the colon pH and modification of the microflora. Lactulose promotes the growth …

Gut microbiota have strong connections with health. Lactulose has been shown to regulate
gut microbiota and benefit host health. In this study, the effect of short‐term (3 week) …

The colonic mucosa is unable to nourish itself from the blood. Instead, its nutritive demand
must be met from the lumen, where different nutrients, short-chain fatty acids, amino acids …

A potential prebiotic action has been ascribed to sorbitol, but in vivo evidence of this remains
scarce. In the present work, the effect of sorbitol was compared to that of fructo …