Farm Animal Metabolism and Nutrition

released from cell membrane phospholipids (prostaglandin E 3 , thromboxane A 3 and leukotriene B 5 ) have anti- or weakly inflam ...

induced hydrolysis of phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate by phospholipase C to produce inositol-1,4,5-trisphosphate and diacy ...

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Chapter 6 Glucose Availability and Associated Metabolism R.W. Russell and S.A. Gahr Division of Animal and Veterinary Sciences, ...

The various farm animals use different routes or combination of routes to obtain blood glucose. Even within a species, the route ...

glycogen, also referred to as animal starch, and various mixtures of amylose and amylopectin. Amylose is a linear polymer of glu ...

glycosidic bonds. The degree of branching varies from nearly linear to highly branched. The branches usually are polymers of ara ...

serous saliva containing -amylase from the parotid salivary glands. Swine, like most farm species, do not have an abundant supp ...

with gut tissues. The presence of acid in the duodenum sensitizes the mucosa to release the hormone, secretin. Secretin stimulat ...

1987). The activities of the intestinal saccharidases vary along the length of both the intestine (Vonk and Western, 1984) and t ...

from <0.4 mMin the non-absorptive state to several mMduring the absorptive state. The range in concentration will be even mor ...

Glucose Availability and Associated Metabolism 129 Fig. 6.1. Absorption of glucose through the small intestine. SGLT1 SGLT1 SGLT ...

establish a standing osmotic gradient in the epithelial interstitium that increases water transport from the lumen to the inters ...

activity in poultry is much less than in insectivorous birds, but adequate to hydro- lyse approximately one-third of purified sh ...

by the mixing contractions of the rumen (Ulyatt et al., 1986). Rumination is also a potent stimulus for salivation. The con- tin ...

11.Lipolytic, e.g. Anaerovigrio lipolytica, Butyrivibrio fibrisolvens, Treponema bryantii, Eubacterium sp., Fusocillus sp. and M ...

134 R.W. Russell and S.A. Gahr Fig. 6.2. Absorption of carbohydrates by enteric microorganisms. ...

percentage carbon fermented yields 38, 17, 17, 17 and 11%. Management practices such as diet and meal frequency influence these ...