Comparative physiology of the vertebrate digestive system /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
[1995]
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| Edition: | Second edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Energy and nutrient requirements
- Metabolic rates
- Energy and food requirements
- Water turnover and requirements
- Protein requirements
- Energy and protein requirements of the digestive system
- Summary
- General characteristics of the vertebrate digestive system
- Headgut
- Foregut
- Esophagus
- Stomach
- Midgut
- Pancreas and biliary system
- Hindgut
- Cloaca
- Summary
- The digestive system of fish, amphibians, reptiles, and birds
- The mammalian gastrointestinal tract
- Monotremata
- Pholidota
- Tubulidentata
- Cetacea
- Macroscelidea
- Insectivora
- Scandentia
- Chiroptera
- Carnivora
- Marsupialia
- Edentata
- Rodentia
- Primates
- Artiodactyla
- Dermoptera
- Lagomorpha
- Perissodactyla
- Proboscidea
- Sirenia
- Hyracoidea
- Summary
- Motor activity
- Esophagus
- Deglutition
- Regurgitation
- Eructation
- Stomach
- Midgut
- Hindgut
- Summary.
- Digesta transit and retention
- Retention of particles
- Retention of fluid
- Digestive strategies and models of digesta flow in vertebrates
- Batch reactors
- Plug-flow reactors
- Continuous-flow, stirred-tank reactors.
- Modified plug-flow reactors
- Applications of models
- Summary
- Digestion of carbohydrate, lipids, and protein and the absorption of end products
- Digestion
- Carbohydrates
- Structural carbohydrates
- Storage carbohydrates
- Oligosaccharides and disaccharides
- Lipids
- Proteins
- Endopeptidases
- Pepsin
- Chymosin
- Trypsin
- Chymotrypsin
- Elastase
- Collagenase
- Exopeptidases
- Pancreatic carboxypeptidases
- Intestinal peptidases
- Nucleic acids
- Absorption
- Carboyhydrates
- Lipids
- Peptides and amino acids
- Vitamins
- Ontogeny
- Summary
- Microbial fermentation and synthesis of nutrients and the absorption of end products
- The ruminant forestomach
- Microbes
- Fermentation of carbohydrates
- Nitrogen recycling and synthesis of microbial protein
- Synthesis of vitamins
- Digestive tracts of other species
- Foregut
- Midgut
- Hindgut
- Microbes
- Fermentation of carbohydrates.
- Nitrogen recycling and synthesis of microbial protein
- Synthesis of vitamins
- Corprophagy
- Herbivores.
- Dietary diseases associated with microbial fermentation
- Summary
- Secretion and absorption of electrolytes and water
- Electrolyte composition of body fluid compartments
- Electrolyte transport mechanisms
- Mechanisms of transport
- Salivary secretion
- Pancreatic secretion
- Biliary secretion
- Gastric secretion and absorption
- Proper gastric glandular mucosa
- Cardiac glandular mucosa
- Pyloric glandular mucosa
- Stratified squamous epithelium
- Intestine
- Midgut
- Hindgut
- Enterosystemic circulation
- Summary
- Neuroendocrine control
- Neural control of the digestive system
- Anatomy
- Neurotransmitters and neuromodulators
- Endocrine control of the digestive system
- Gastrin
- Cholecystokinin
- Secretin
- Gastric-inhibitory polypeptide
- Enteroglucagons
- Pancreatic polypeptide
- Peptide YY
- Somatostatin
- Motilin
- Neurotensin
- melatonin
- Cytokines
- Summary.
- Evolution of the digestive system
- Headgut
- Foregut
- Salivary, pancreatic, and biliary secretion
- Intestine
- Midgut
- Hindgut.
- Neuroendocrine control
- Evolution of herbivores
- Invertebrates
- Fish
- Amphibians
- Reptiles
- Birds
- Mammals
- Rodents
- Ungulates
- Cetaceans
- Macropod marsupials
- Summary
- Conclusions and future directions.