Modulating the activity of the endocannabinoid system influences various gastrointestinal physiological and pathophysiological processes, and cannabinoid receptors as well as regulatory enzymes responsible for the synthesis or degradation of endocannabinoids representing potential targets to reduce the development of gastrointestinal mucosal lesions, hemorrhage and inflammation. Direct activati...

Four hundred and forty 1-day-old Arbor Acre broilers were fed commercial starter diets with 0, 250, 750 and 2,250 mg/kg of an alpha-amylase preparation from 1 to 21 days of age to investigate the effects of an exogenous enzyme on growth performance, activities of digestive enzymes in the pancreas and anterior intestinal contents and pancreatic amylase mRNA expression. Body weight gain (BWG) and...

Carbohydrates are hydrolyzed in the intestinal lumen by specific enzymes to monosaccharides before transport across the brush border membrane of epithelial cells into the cell interior. The enzymes implicated in the digestion of carbohydrates in the intestinal lumen are membrane-bound glycoproteins that are expressed at the apical domain of the enterocytes. Absent or reduced activity of one of ...

Alkaline phosphatase, which occurs in very high concentration in the mtestinal mucosa (1) and is excreted (2) in the intestine in large quantities during digestion, has been found also in increased concentration in the plasma (3) and especially in the intestinal lymph (4) of the rat after it has been fed a meal containing fat. This increase in the alkaline phosphatase activity of intestinal lym...

When human consumes contaminated pork containing cysticerci itresults in the transmission of viablecysticerci to the human small intestine, where by the action of bile and digestive enzymes, the scolexof a cysticercusevaginates and attaches to the intestinal wall. Proglottids multiply and the parasitebecomes a cestode that can be passed in the faeces as mature proglottids. The two main sources ...

Infectious and inflammatory diseases in the intestine remain a serious threat for patients world-wide. Reprogramming of intestinal epithelium towards protective effector state is important to manage inflammation immunity can be therapeutically targeted. The role epigenetic regulatory enzymes within these processes not yet defined. Here, we use mouse model that has an intestinal-epithelial speci...

The digestive physiology of the germ-free animal has a number of characteristics (cecal hypertrophy, slower small intestine cell renewal, slower gastric emptying and intestinal transit) which distinguish it from that of the conventional animal. If the germ-free model is to be used to determine the role of gastrointestinal microflora in the nutrition of the conventional animal, it is essential t...

Enzyme activity was evaluated in the intestine of juvenile dourado (Salminus brasiliensis) fed with diets containing 0, 10 or 20% of lyophilized bovine colostrum (LBC) inclusion for either 30 or 60 days. The intestinal enzymes acid and alkaline phosphatase (ACP and ALP, respectively), non-specific esterase (NSE), lipase (LIP), dipeptidyl aminopeptidase IV (DAP IV) and leucine aminopeptidase (LA...