| Muscle weakness in SSc may also arise from extramuscular organ involvement such as cardiac, cutaneous, or pulmonary complications, or gastrointestinal malassimilation. |
| In all conditions of malassimilation, there is more or less autointoxication. |
| Thus, these individuals were also classified as non-allergic controls with symptomatic carbohydrate malassimilation or pancreatic insufficiency. |
| According to the label, Seng is indicated in indigestion, malassimilation, malnutrition and wasting diseases. |
| Our results suggest that monooxygenase activity in the human small intestine is dependent on the morphological integrity of the mucosa and that in normal mucosa the enzyme rates are reduced when malassimilation is present. |
| Note: Digestive and absorptive processes are so inextricably linked, that a third term, malassimilation has been coined in order to reflect this situation. |
