Drug-nutrient interactions: inhibition of amino acid intestinal absorption by fluoxetine.

Fluoxetine is one of the most widely used antidepressants and nowadays it is also being used to manage obesity problems. In our laboratory we demonstrated that the drug inhibited sugar absorption (Monteiro et al. 1993).

Interactions of cephradine and cefaclor with the intestinal absorption of D-galactose.

Oral cephalosporins are frequently prescribed beta-lactam antibiotics. Although it has been well established that cephalosporins compete with dipeptides for absorption in the intestine, using the same transport mechanism, little is known about the action of the drugs on the absorption of other nutrients. In this work the effect of cephradine and cefaclor on the absorption of D-galactose has been studied.

Influence of cephalosporins on intestinal enzymatic activity.

The effect of the broad spectrum antibiotics cefaclor, cefadroxil, cephradine, cefatrizine, cephaloglycine and cefroxadine was examined on rat intestinal brush border enzymes, aminopeptidase N (E.C. 3.

[Development of a computer program to assess nutritional status of infants and preschool children].

A computer program named INFANDIET has been designed with a Window's application (ToolBook software vs. 1.53), based upon object-oriented programming, and devised to assess the nutritional status of infants by using compatible computers PC.