Addition of pearl barley to a rice-based diet for newly weaned piglets increases the viscosity of the intestinal contents, reduces starch digestibility and exacerbates post-weaning colibacillosis

British Journal of Nutrition

Volumn 92, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 419-427

  Hopwood, Deborah E ^a   Pethick, David W ^b   Pluske, John R ^b   Hampson, David J ^b  

^a Animal Resources Centre   (Australia)

^b MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Diarrhoea; Escherichia coli; Intestinal viscosity; Non starch polysaccharides; Pearl barley; Weaner pigs

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL FOOD; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BARLEY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; DIETARY INTAKE; DIGESTION; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FOOD INTAKE; INTESTINE FUNCTION; NONHUMAN; RICE; SEROTYPE; SWINE; VETERINARY MEDICINE; VISCOSITY; WEANING; ANIMAL; CALORIC INTAKE; CHEMISTRY; DIET; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LARGE INTESTINE; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PH; PHYSIOLOGY; STOMACH JUICE; WEIGHT GAIN;

STARCH; VOLATILE FATTY ACID;

ANIMAL FEED; ANIMALS; DIET; DIGESTION; ENERGY INTAKE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FATTY ACIDS, VOLATILE; GASTROINTESTINAL CONTENTS; HORDEUM; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; INTESTINE, LARGE; ORYZA SATIVA; STARCH; SWINE; VISCOSITY; WEANING; WEIGHT GAIN;

EID: 6944254037     PISSN: 00071145     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1079/BJN20041206     Document Type: Article

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