Introduction Proper functioning of the digestive system is imperative to assimilate nutrients, to sustain essential functions in the human body, to increase the bioavailability of nutrients, to minimize the risk of food intolerances, and to reduce the formation of toxins/irritants in the gastrointestinal-tract. Incomplete digestion often results in digestive problems such as bloating, diarrhea,...

are, however, apt to persist and are often made the occasion of weaning the baby. I therefore venture to bring before the Obstetrical Society for their consideration and discussion the nature and treatment of a group of minor digestive disorders of breast-fed infants in the first month of life. The first month of life is a critical one as regards the digestion of the infant. At birth, digestion...

Thilo HAGEN*1, Jaswinder K. SETHI†, Neale FOXWELL‡ and Antonio VIDAL-PUIG† *Wolfson Digestive Diseases Centre, University Hospital, Nottingham NG7 2UH, U.K., †Department of Clinical Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, Level 4, Box 232, Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 2QR, U.K., and ‡The Wolfson Institute for Biomedical Research, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, U.K.

The newborn piglet has a digestive system which is well adapted to a diet of its own dam’s milk, indeed if a sow has a plentiful supply of milk it is very difficult to interest her piglets in any alternative food, certainly for the 1 s t 1-2 weeks of life. Little supplementary food is actually eaten to start with. The piglets sniff the food, nuzzle it and taste it. Food that has been in the pen...

Cockles Cerastoderma edule were fed two different concentrations of two diets with different qualities which were achieved by mixing different proportions of ashed silt particles with cells of the microalgae Tetraselmis suecica. After 3 days (acute response) and 11 days (acclimated response) of exposure to the diets, we analysed the digestive activity of the digestive gland using cyto-histologi...

fungal agents, especially yeasts, are resident in digestive system as microflora and they can invade the mucosal tract in animals with predisposing factors. the prevalence of the resident fungal flora in the digestive tract of healthy broilers and layers during april to september 2008 was investigated. the samples were taken from the preventriculus, jejunum and cecum contents of 120 birds and c...