Table 4.

Median values and ranges of the relative concentration (‰) of organic compounds of faecal and urine samples from treated celiac disease (T-CD) children and non-celiac children (HC) as determined by ¹H nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy analysis

Chemical class	Treated celiac disease (T-CD) children		Non-celiac children (HC)
	Median	Range	Median	Range
Faeces
Tryptophane	1.13a	0.29 - 1.38	0.68b	0.19 - 1.33
Proline	2.74a	0 - 19.68	1.87b	0.71 - 6.47
Trimethylamine-N-ox	3.36a	1.16 - 11.60	1.82b	0.46 - 10.94
Histidine	5.56a	3.05 - 19.95	2.89b	0.93 - 11.03
Asparagine	2.01a	1.02 - 2.75	1.21b	0.51 - 2.17
Tyramine	2.81a	1.34 - 3.21	1.88b	0.74 - 7.87
Methionine	1.78a	0.99 - 3.30	1.50a	0.64 - 2.06
Urines
Carnosine	0.28b	0.12 - 0.48	0.43a	0.22 - 1.37
Glucose	14.66b	4.80 - 31.00	19.76a	15.33 - 53.73
Creatinine	38.51a	15.83 - 83.23	21.31b	10.40 - 61.80
Methylamine	1.45a	0.80 - 7.72	0.93b	0.32 - 2.36
Glutamine	4.05b	1.72 - 8.03	5.65a	3.14 - 8.55
Lysine-Arginine	8.96a	4.07 - 25.72	7.10b	5.59 - 11.08
Ornithine	1.87a	0.09 - 23.40	1.17a	1.03 - 2.08
3-Methyl-2-oxobutanoic acid	1.84b	1.12 - 2.60	2.35a	1.63 - 2.78

Data are the means of three independent experiments (n = 3) for each children.

^a-bMeans within a row with different superscript letters are significantly different (P < 0.05).