Two high-amylose maize starches with different amounts of resistant starch vary in their effects on fermentation, tissue and digesta mass accretion, and bacterial populations in the large bowel of pigs

British Journal of Nutrition

Volumn 97, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 134-144

  Bird, Anthony R ^a   Vuaran, Michelle ^a   Brown, Ian ^b   Topping, David L ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

Fermentation; Maize; Pigs; Resistant starch; SCFA

Indexed keywords

AMYLOSE; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CASEIN; CORN OIL; MINERAL; STARCH; SUCROSE; VITAMIN; VOLATILE FATTY ACID; WATER;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL FOOD; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIFIDOBACTERIUM; BODY WEIGHT; COLON; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIETARY FIBER; DIGESTION; FEMALE; FERMENTATION; FOOD ANALYSIS; FOOD COMPOSITION; FOOD INTAKE; FOOD PROCESSING; INTESTINE FUNCTION; LACTOBACILLUS; LARGE INTESTINE; MAIZE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; SWINE; WHEAT BRAN; ANIMAL; ANIMAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FECES; HISTOLOGY; ILEUM; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PH; STOMACH JUICE; WEIGHT GAIN;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); SUIDAE; ZEA MAYS;

AMYLOSE; ANIMAL FEED; ANIMALS; COLON; DIETARY FIBER; FATTY ACIDS, VOLATILE; FECES; FEMALE; FERMENTATION; GASTROINTESTINAL CONTENTS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; ILEUM; MALE; MODELS, ANIMAL; SWINE; WATER; WEIGHT GAIN; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 33847156898     PISSN: 00071145     EISSN: 14752662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0007114507250433     Document Type: Article

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