INULIN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does inulin mean? 

• INULIN (noun)
  The noun INULIN has 1 sense:

1. used to manufacture fructose and in assessing kidney function

  Familiarity information: INULIN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INULIN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Used to manufacture fructose and in assessing kidney function

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("inulin" is a kind of...):

polyose; polysaccharide (any of a class of carbohydrates whose molecules contain chains of monosaccharide molecules)

 Context examples 

A measurement of the volume of serum or plasma that would be cleared of inulin by excretion of urine for a specified unit of time (e.g. one minute).

(Inulin Clearance, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

Oligofructose-enriched inulin helps healthy bacteria grow in the intestines and helps the body absorb calcium and magnesium.

(Oligofructose-enriched inulin, NCI Dictionary)

Oligofructose-enriched inulin may be administered in combination with probiotic bifidobacteria.

(Oligofructose-enriched inulin, NCI Thesaurus)

This species is motile, non-spore forming, esculin positive, forms butyrate, produces abundant amounts of hydrogen, and utilizes glucose, cellobiose, melezitose, fructose, sucrose, raffinose, melibiose, starch, and inulin, but not glycerol.

(Eubacterium rectale, NCI Thesaurus)

The rate at which inulin is removed or cleared from the whole or part of the body.

(Inulin Clearance, NCI Thesaurus)

Inulin stimulates the growth of beneficial bacteria in the colon, including Bifidobacteria and Lactobacilli, thereby modulating the composition of microflora.

(Inulin, NCI Thesaurus)

This species is catalase negative, produces hydrogen sulfide, and may convert inulin to acid.

(Globicatella sulfidifaciens, NCI Thesaurus)

This species is nonmotile, non-spore forming, indole negative, utilizes acetate, hydrolyzes esculin, ferments fructose, starch, and inulin, but not arabinose, melibiose, raffinose, rhamnose, ribose or xylose, does not produce hydrogen or reduce nitrate, but does produce copious amounts of butyrate.

(Faecalibacterium prausnitzii, NCI Thesaurus)

A mixture of non-digestible carbohydrates, containing the fermentable plant fructans oligosaccharide and inulin, with potential prebiotic activity.

(Oligofructose-enriched inulin, NCI Thesaurus)

Oligofructose-enriched inulin is made by combining two substances that occur naturally in many plants, including chicory root, wheat, bananas, onion, and garlic.

(Oligofructose-enriched inulin, NCI Dictionary)