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I. Normal Individuals

JACK D. WELSH, MD; G. VICTOR ROHRER, MD; ANTHONY WALKER, BS

Arch Intern Med. 1966;117(4):488-494.

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DECREASED disaccharidase activity in the small intestine may be primary, or secondary to other small intestinal diseases.^1,2 The diagnosis is established by appropriate oral carbohydrate tolerance tests and assays of the mucosal disaccharidases of the small intestine. The work reported here concerns: (1) the oral lactose tolerance test in normal humans given varying amounts of the test carbohydrate; (2) our normal range of small intestinal disaccharidase and alkaline phosphatase activities; and (3) additional data on the distribution of these enzymes in the duodenum and jejunum.

Material and Methods

Patients.

—Twenty-five individuals were selected for this study on the bases of a negative history of milk or disaccharide intolerance and/or normal disaccharide tolerance tests. The subjects were then classified into two groups. Group 1 consisted of 19 presumably healthy individuals ranging in age from 21 to 46 years; 14 men and 5 women. Seventeen were Caucasian and two were . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
OKLAHOMA CITY

From the Department of Medicine, the University of Oklahoma Medical Center, Oklahoma City.

Footnotes
Received for publication Oct 13, 1965; accepted Dec 27.

Reprint requests to 800 NE 13th St, Oklahoma City, Okla 73104 (Dr. Welsh).

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