Necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) remains a significant cause of morbidity and mortality for low birth weight premature infants. Prematurity, ischemia, formula feeding, and bacterial colonization are risk factors for the self-perpetuating cycle of damaged intestinal epithelia, inflammation, bacterial entry, sepsis, and shock that characterizes NEC. Probiotics are food supplements containing live ...

Na234SO4 was infused into the rumen of a sheep fed a dried grass diet. 2. The digesta at the pylorus which contained 35S-labelled cyst(e)ine synthesized by the rumen microflora was collected and mixed with chromium EDTA. This material was infused into the duodenum of 35S free sheep. 3. Ileal digesta was subsequently collected and analysed for cyst(e)ine 35S and Cr. 4. The proportion of the labe...

In individual, single-phase feeding animals were fed extensively (group E--7 animals) or intensively (group I--7 animals) in semi ad libitum system. The mixtures differed in composition as well as energy and nutritional value, with constant ratio of protein to energy of 13.12:1 in intensive feeding and 13.04:1 in extensive feeding. Fibre content per 1 kg mixture was 3.43% in group I and 12.3% i...

Deoxynivalenol (DON), a mycotoxin produced by some Fusarium species, is a frequent contaminant of cereal. In the present study, 24 weanling piglets received either control feed or feed naturally contaminated with DON (2.8 mg/kg) for four weeks. Consumption of contaminated feed significantly reduced the animal weight gain during the first week of the experiment, but had a moderate effect on cult...

the main inflammatory bowel disorders are including celiac disease (cd), inflammatory bowel diseases (ibd) and irritable bowel syndrome (ibs). celiac disease is a digestive and autoimmune disorder that can damage the small intestine and characterized by a multitude gastrointestinal (gi) and extra gi symptoms. ibd (including ulcerative colitis and crohn’s disease) is a group of inflammatory cond...

Thiamine (vitamin B(1)) is essential for normal cellular functions and growth. Mammals cannot synthesize thiamine and thus must obtain the vitamin via intestinal absorption. The intestine is exposed to a dietary thiamine source and a bacterial source in which the vitamin is synthesized by the normal microflora of the large intestine. Very little is known about thiamine uptake in the large intes...

Data on the study of effect a consortium lactic acid bacteria morphological parameters blood and state intestinal microflora white rats using composition probiotic strains L. lactis, Lb. plantarum E. durans SB18 in ratio 50:40:10. Thus, when determining at 14 days use found positive hematopoietic function laboratory animals. In particular, significant increase hemoglobin concentration, erythroc...

The biological, chemical and physical properties of dietary fibers are associated with physiologic actions in the small and large intestine that have important metabolic implications for health. These properties of fiber include dispersibility in water, bulk, viscosity, adsorption and binding of compounds and fermentability. Dietary fructans share some of the properties of dietary fiber and thu...

Aims: To reveal the interaction between intestinal microflora and protozoan parasite organisms how it affect their host’s performance.
 Discussion: The vertebrate gastro-intestinal system contain wide array of diverse but dynamic bacterial microbiota population that has ubiquitous consequences on its well-being including physiology, nutrition, metabolism, immunity, locally systematically. ...