Digestion and absorption of nutrients
... • Pancreatic juice and secretions from the intestinal wall cells contain a variety of digestive enzymes that help to digest fats, carbohydrates, and proteins ...
... • Pancreatic juice and secretions from the intestinal wall cells contain a variety of digestive enzymes that help to digest fats, carbohydrates, and proteins ...
Journey Through Your Gut Infographic
... lined with mucosa, a layer of tissue that helps to absorb nutrients, produce digestive enzymes, and make mucus to protect the delicate intestinal wall. ...
... lined with mucosa, a layer of tissue that helps to absorb nutrients, produce digestive enzymes, and make mucus to protect the delicate intestinal wall. ...
Extended Spectrum B-Lactamases in Haemophilus? Stephen Tristram
... 3. Some bacteria which are part of the normal flora can cause disease if they gain access to deep tissues by trauma, surgery, lines, e.g. S. epidermidis 4. In immunocompromised patients many free-living bacteria and components of the normal flora can cause disease, especially if introduced into deep ...
... 3. Some bacteria which are part of the normal flora can cause disease if they gain access to deep tissues by trauma, surgery, lines, e.g. S. epidermidis 4. In immunocompromised patients many free-living bacteria and components of the normal flora can cause disease, especially if introduced into deep ...
The Digestive System - Gastroenterological Society of Australia
... The small bowel is five metres in length in an adult and half that length for a baby. It is made up of many folds; if all the folds were flattened out, the surface area would equal that of a doubles tennis court. This creates a large surface area to allow large amounts of nutrients to pass across th ...
... The small bowel is five metres in length in an adult and half that length for a baby. It is made up of many folds; if all the folds were flattened out, the surface area would equal that of a doubles tennis court. This creates a large surface area to allow large amounts of nutrients to pass across th ...
Mission Digestive Health Handout
... • Recycles the _____________ • Recycles the waste material which nourish the colon cells • Captures any lost nutrients that are still available and _________________ them to vitamins K, B1, B2, B12, and butyric acid • Finally, forms and expels feces • Fact: When all is said and done, this whole proc ...
... • Recycles the _____________ • Recycles the waste material which nourish the colon cells • Captures any lost nutrients that are still available and _________________ them to vitamins K, B1, B2, B12, and butyric acid • Finally, forms and expels feces • Fact: When all is said and done, this whole proc ...
Equine Nutrition Sales Presentation
... manure. …..The mature horse's large intestine makes up more than half of the total volume of the digestive tract, is important for microbial digestion of food and is a major reservoir for water. ...
... manure. …..The mature horse's large intestine makes up more than half of the total volume of the digestive tract, is important for microbial digestion of food and is a major reservoir for water. ...
Gut flora
Gut flora or, more appropriately, gut microbiota, consists of a complex community of microorganism species that live in the digestive tracts of animals and is the largest reservoir of microorganisms mutual to humans. In this context gut is synonymous with intestinal, and flora with microbiota and microflora. The gut microbiome refer to the genomes of the gut microbiota.Gut microorganisms benefit the host by gleaning the energy from the fermentation of undigested carbohydrates and the subsequent absorption of short-chain fatty acids. The most important of these fatty acids are butyrates, metabolised by the colonic epithelium; propionates by the liver; and acetates by the muscle tissue. Intestinal bacteria also play a role in synthesizing vitamin B and vitamin K as well as metabolizing bile acids, sterols and xenobiotics.The human body carries about 100 trillion microorganisms in its intestines, a number ten times greater than the total number of human cells in the body. The metabolic activities performed by these bacteria resemble those of an organ, leading some to liken gut bacteria to a ""forgotten"" organ. It is estimated that these gut flora have around a hundred times as many genes in aggregate as there are in the human genome.