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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 25, 2004
Filed:
Oct. 09, 2001
Alfred M. Ajami, Brookline, MA (US);
Xanthus Life Scienes, Inc., Cambridge, MA (US);
Abstract
Methods of measuring gastric emptying time comprising providing to a patient a meal comprising a breath test food additive substrate, wherein the substrate is a linear or cyclic acyl aminoacid peptidomimetic that includes a radioactive or non-radioactively labeled carbon atom; having the patient digest the meal so that the carbon labeled nutrients therein are absorbed in the small intestine and metabolized to labeled CO ; and, at periodic intervals, detecting the level of labeled CO in breath samples taken from the patient to determine the rate of gastric emptying are disclosed.
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