FOR practical purposes the available antibiotics may be divided with respect to their absorption and excretion into two major groups: those that are absorbed from the gastrointestinal tract and ...

Gut microbes that were thought to feed exclusively on dietary fiber also get fed sugar from our guts, from which they produce ...

Pharmacokinetics encompasses four processes: absorption, distribution, metabolism, and excretion, which are often abbreviated as ADME (Figure 1). Absorption usually refers to how a drug enters the ...

Researchers are conducting studies to help understand how diabetes drugs affect glucose excretion, the gut microbiome, and their metabolic products.

Enzymes are biological catalysts which speed up reactions including digestion. Lipids include fats (solid at room temperature) and oils (liquid at room temperature). Vitamins and minerals Vitamins ...

Gut microbes that were thought to feed exclusively on dietary fiber also get fed sugar from our guts, from which they produce short-chain fatty acids ...

(HealthDay News) — For night shift workers, melatonin supplementation seems to improve oxidative DNA damage repair capacity, according to a study published online Feb. 24 in Occupational & ...

A marker of kidney antioxidant activity and a marker of fibrosis both show relationships with kidney failure risk, independent of other factors. New research links serum afamin and urinary ...