The role of dietary nucleotides in single-stomached animals

Nutrition Research Reviews

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 46-59

  Sauer, Nadja ^a   Mosenthin, Rainer ^a   Bauer, Eva ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Gastrointestinal tract; Nucleotides; Pigs; Single stomached animals

Indexed keywords

NUCLEOTIDE; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ANIMAL FOOD; BOVIDS; DIETARY INTAKE; EUROPEAN UNION; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; IMMUNITY; INTESTINE FLORA; MILK; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT; PIG FARMING; REVIEW; WEANING; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; DIET; DRUG EFFECTS; INTESTINE; LIVER; STOMACH; SWINE;

ANIMALIA; SUIDAE;

ANIMAL FEED; ANIMAL NUTRITIONAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; DIET; INTESTINES; LIVER; MILK; NUCLEOTIDES; STOMACH; SWINE; WEANING;

EID: 79958804478     PISSN: 09544224     EISSN: 14752700     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0954422410000326     Document Type: Review

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