BACKGROUND/AIMS Besides age, risk factors for colonic diverticular disease include dietary meat intake and Western lifestyles, which are also risk factors for obesity. However, the association between obesity and colonic diverticular disease, including diverticulosis and diverticulitis, is not well established. The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between colonic diverticul...

Molecular analysis of gut content is one the widest used methods to investigate diet in arthropods. Stomach some arthropods particularly difficult, e.g., arachnids, because they have external digestion and a low foraging frequency. Scorpions feeding frequency, their information scarce. In this work we explore DNA metabarcoding approach detect prey Vietnamese forest scorpions (Heterometrus laoti...

the purpose of this study was to determine changes in the normal flora of the gastrointestinal tract and blood parameters of rainbow trout after taking probiotics and oregano extract. this study was completely randomized design with 5 treatments and 3 replicates each with 40 fry 22 g of the rainbow trout. treatments consisted of basal diet, florfenicol, 0.5%, 1% and of oregano extract, 2% bacto...

Despite being internal organs, digestive structures are frequently preserved in Cambrian Lagerstätten. However, the reasons for their fossilisation and their biological implications remain to be thoroughly explored. This is particularly true with arthropods--typically the most diverse fossilised organisms in Cambrian ecosystems--where digestive structures represent an as-yet underexploited alte...

level of water, neutral fat, total cholesterol, free cholesterol, and phospholipid, expressed as gm/100 gm dry weight, in the carcass (host rat minus tumor) of albino rats bearing Walker car cinoma @56shifts toward the level of these dc ments in the tumor (5). These changes, which have been categorized collectively as the hydrolipo tropic shift, appear in the host carcass after @†" 4 weeks of...

Obesity and overeating affect many functions of the body including increasing amounts of certain hormones and the storage of fat. Digestive processes influence the digestion and absorption of fats in the gut and these functions can be altered when overeating occurs or a person is obese. The type of fat and the length of a fatty acid chain also contribute to a person’s ability to digest and stor...

This work describes the morphology and histology of the P. argentinus digestive tract. The foregut comprises the mouth, oesophagus, and stomach and is lined by a simple cylindrical epithelium overlain by cuticle. There are tegumental glands in the oral region and in the first portion of the oesophagus and of the hindgut. The cardiac stomach is an oval dorsal sac in the cephalothorax and has no ...

The gastrointestinal tract is responsible for a multitude of digestive and immune functions which depend upon the balanced interaction of the intestinal microbiota, diet, gut barrier function, and mucosal immune response. Disruptions in one or more of these factors can lead to intestinal disorders or enteropathies which are characterized by intestinal inflammation, increased gut permeability, a...