Host diet influences the diversity and metabolic activities of the gut microbiome. Previous studies have shown that the gut microbiome provides a wide array of enzymes that enable processing of diverse dietary components. Because the primary diet of the porcupine, Erethizon dorsatum, is lignified plant material, we reasoned that the porcupine microbiome would be replete with enzymes required to...

Background: Obesity is a complex disorder influenced by various genetic and environmental factors. It has been shown that gut microbiota, which colonizes gastrointestinal tract, has a substantial role as an environmental factor in the pathophysiology of obesity. Since the composition of gut microbiota alters with regard to different criteria, such as ethnicity, geographical location, diet, life...

extra-intestinal pathogenic escherichia coli (expec) strains are divided into uropathogenic e. coli (upec), strains causing neonatal meningitis and septicaemic e. coli. the most common pathotype of expec is found among patients with urinary tract infection (uti), defined as upec. these bacteria are responsible for >90% of cases of uti and are often found amongst the faecal flora of the same hos...

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a study of insect digestive enzymes makes sense given that the gut is the major interface between the insect and its environment. an understanding of gut and digestive enzyme function is essential when advanced methods of insect management such as application of enzyme inhibitors and transgenic plants are developed to control insect pests. the aim of the current research project was to study mi...

High-amylose starch has unique functional properties and nutritional values in food applications. This type of is generally resistant to enzymatic digestion the gastrointestinal tract, contains an increased fraction (RS), which a dietary fiber. The fermentation high-amylose gut are current research interest, as processes related its functionality. review summarizes recent vitro vivo studies on ...

We consider a class of seven-dimensional N = 1 supersymmetric orbifold GUTs in which the Standard Model (SM) gauge couplings and one of the Yukawa couplings (top quark, bottom quark or tau lepton) are unified, without low energy supersymmetry, at MGUT ≃ 4× 10 GeV. With gauge-top quark Yukawa coupling unification the SM Higgs boson mass is estimated to be 135± 6 GeV, which increases to 144± 4 Ge...

pattern of feeding and reproduction of amblypharyngodon mola (hamilton, 1822) was studied in two floodplain lakes of north 24 parganas districts of west bengal in india during 2011.  results indicated that the fish exhibited a predominantly herbivorous diet with algae as the main content of gut. a long, thin walled, coiled gut and closely packed filamentous gill racker suited this feeding habit...

a total of 240, one-day-old quail chicks (coturnix coturnix japonica) were used to study the effects of artichoke leaf meal (alm) and vitamin e in diet on growth performance, ileal microbial populations and intestinal morphology in a 42-d trial. this experiment was performed as a completely randomized design with 4 replicates of 15 quails each, using a 4 × 2 factorial arrangement with diet and ...