Potential rates of fermentation in digesta from the gastrointestinal tract of pigs: Effect of feeding fermented liquid feed

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 408-418

  Højberg, Ole ^a   Canibe, Nuria ^a   Knudsen, Bettina ^a   Jensen, Bent Borg ^a  

^a DANISH INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; CARBOHYDRATES; ENZYMES; FATTY ACIDS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PH;

GASTROINTESTINAL TRACTS;

FERMENTATION;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; CARBOHYDRATE; LACTIC ACID; LACTOSE; MALTOSE; SHORT CHAIN FATTY ACID; SUCROSE;

FERMENTATION;

ACIDITY; ANAEROBIC BACTERIUM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERICIDAL ACTIVITY; COLIFORM BACTERIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIETARY INTAKE; ENZYME DEGRADATION; ENZYME KINETICS; FERMENTATION; FERMENTED PRODUCT; FOOD COMPOSITION; INTESTINE FLORA; LACTIC ACID BACTERIUM; LARGE INTESTINE; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; SMALL INTESTINE; STOMACH; SWINE; TECHNIQUE; TISSUE LEVEL;

ANIMAL FEED; ANIMALS; BACTERIA, ANAEROBIC; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; FATTY ACIDS; FECES; FERMENTATION; LACTIC ACID; SWINE; UREA;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; MICROBIOTA; SALMONELLA; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 0037225009     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.69.1.408-418.2003     Document Type: Article

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