Bioactive compounds, antibiotics and heavy metals: effects on the intestinal structure and microbiome of monogastric animals – a non-systematic review

Abstract The intestinal structure and gut microbiota are essential for the animals’ health. Chemical components taken with food provide right environment a specific microbiome which, together its metabolites products of digestion, create an environment, which in turn affects population size bacteria. Disturbances composition can be reason malformation guts, has decisive impact on animal’s This review aimed to analyse scientific literature, published over past 20 years, concerning effect nutritional factors health, determined by monogastric animals. Several topics have been investigated: bioactive compounds (probiotics, prebiotics, organic acids, herbal active substances), antibiotics heavy metals (essential minerals toxic metals).