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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Apr 20.
Published in final edited form as: Curr Metabolomics. 2013;1(2):109–120. doi: 10.2174/2213235x11301020001

Table 3.

Dietary Modulation of the Fecal Metabolome

Sample Metabolites Identified by Platform
GC-MS LC-MS NMR Other

Stool Galactonic Acid 9-octadecenoic Acid Propanoic Acid Cholic Acid
E. rectale Lithocholic acid Fumaric Acid Deoxycholic Acid
Coprostanol Deoxycholic acid Glycine Lithocholic Acid
Cholestanone β-muricholic acid Homocysteine Hyodeoxycholic Acid
Deoxycholic acid Chenodeoxycholic acid Enterobacteriaceae
Betahyocholic acid Benzaldehyde Cholic acid
Lithocholic acid Urolithin A Cytotoxic Hyodeoxycholic acid
Cholic acid haem metabolite (haem factor) Valerate
Benzoic acid Isovalerate
Acetophenones Isobutyrate
Cholesterol Lactate
Cholestanol Benzene
Coprostanone Acetic Acid
Cholestenone Butonic Acid
Glutamic Acid
Alanine

References [51, 77] [29, 78] [33, 79] [33, 67, 7981]
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Other Platforms used in Identifying Metabolites: ICP-OES: Inductively Coupled Plasma Spectroscopy, DAD-MS/MS: Diode Array Detector Mass Spectrometry, FIEI-MS: Flow Injection Electrospray-ionisation.