SMALL-BOWEL REVIEW .1.

Significant advances have been made in the study of the small bower. P art I of this two-part review of the small bowel examines carbohydrate s, including brush border membrane hydrolysis and sugar transport; ami no acids, dipeptides, proteins and food allergy, with a focus an gluta mine, peptides and macromolecules, and nucleosides, nucleotides and po lyamines; salt and water absorption, and diarrhea, including antidiarr heal therapy and oral rehydration treatment; lipids (digestion and abs orption, fatty acid binding proteins, intracellular metabolism, lipopr oteins and bile acids); and metals (eg, iron) and vitamins.