Publication Date:
1981-09-25
Description:
Fermentation of food by the microbial community of the rumen is essential for the maintenance and growth of ruminants. The microbial ecosystem and its interaction with the host are described, along with recent attempts to manipulate the composition and activity of the microbial community by adding antibiotics and other chemicals to ruminant diets. A similar microbial community and fermentation occur in the large intestine or cecum of most nonruminant animals including the large intestine of humans. The microbial ecosystems of the rumen and human large intestine are compared.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Wolin, M J -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1981 Sep 25;213(4515):1463-8.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7280665" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Animals
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Carbohydrate Metabolism
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Cattle
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Fatty Acids/metabolism
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Fermentation
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Humans
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Intestine, Large/microbiology/*physiology
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Methane/metabolism
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Rumen/microbiology/*physiology
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Water-Electrolyte Balance
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
