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Jonathan B Meddings

John L Wallace

Lloyd Sutherland

Disclosed is a composition for the site-specific detection of gastrointestinal damage containing (a) a first disaccharide that does not degrade in the colon, small intestine or stomach; (b) a second disaccharide that degrades in the colon but does not degrade in the small intestine or stomach; and (c) a third disaccharide that degrades to its monosaccharides in the small intestine and not in the stomach. A method for the site-specific detection of gastrointestinal damage employing the composition of the invention is also disclosed.

Composition for site specific detection of gastrointestinal damage and

Method for the detection of gastric epithelial damage

Disclosed is a method for the detection of gastric epithelial damage and a method which is performed by administering a disaccharide to a patient, assaying the patient's blood or urine for the presence of the disaccharide and correlating the determined disaccharide assay value to gastric epithelial damage.

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Calgary, Canada

Jonathan B Meddings