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Jejunal absorption rates of glucose, glycine and glycylglycine in Zambian African adults with malnutrition

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 July 2007

G. C. Cook
G. C. Cook
Affiliation:
Department of Medicine, The University of Zambia, PO Box RW 110, Lusaka, Zambia
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1. Absorption rates of glucose (from a 200 mM solution), glycine (from a 100 mM solution), and glycylglycine (from a 50 mM solution) have been estimated in six Zambian African adults with clinical evidence of malnutrition. A double-lumen tube technique was used to determine absorption rates from a 300 mm section of jejunum in vivo.

2. Two of the subjects had ileal tuberculosis and Kaposi's sarcoma respectively. A third probably had abdominal tuberculosis. Three of them had pellagra. Mean serum albumin concentration was 24 (14–43) g/l. Absorption rates have been compared with those in Zambian Africans (control subjects), previously studied, who had no clinical evidence of malnutrition, systemic infection or of gastrointestinal disease.

3. Mean glucose, glycine and glycylglycine absorption rates in the malnourished subjects were not significantly different from those in the control subjects. Mean net water absorption rate from the glucose solution was similar in the malnourished subjects and controls; during the glycine and glycylglycine perfusions the mean net absorption rate was, however, significantly lower in the malnourished subjects (P < 0.01 and P < 0.05 respectively); mean net water transfer during the glycine perfusions was towards the jejunal lumen in the malnourished subjects. One subject with pellagra had an abnormal excretion of D-xylose after a 25 g oral load; all other tests were normal.

4. It seems probable that malnutrition must be very severe, with jejunal mucosal abnormalities, before absorption rates of glucose, glycine and glycylglycine are significantly altered. The present study does not support the view that subclinical malnutrition is important in producing malabsorption of dietary components in Zambian African subjects. Systemic bacterial infections, and raised serum γ-globulin and immunoglobulin IgG concentrations have previously been associated with an impairment of glucose absorption rate in Zambian African subjects; those factors seem much more likely than subclinical malnutrition to be relevant, in the context of absorption, in the pathogenesis of overt malnutrition.

Type
Clinical and Human Nutrition
Information
British Journal of Nutrition , Volume 32 , Issue 3 , November 1974 , pp. 503 - 513
Copyright
Copyright © The Nutrition Society 1974

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