Sentences with phrase «cecal contents»

How do rabbits act when they have impacted stomach or cecal contents?

Water is still needed by the body and it is extracted from the stomach and cecal contents.

Schulz et al. (1993) found that although ingestion of both types of resistant starch lowered the cecal pH and increased the calcium concentrations in the liquid phase of the cecal contents, only ingestion of the native resistant starch lowered the ileal pH and increased the calcium and magnesium concentrations in the liquid phase of the ileal contents.

In Study 3, RS - fed rats had increased short - chain fatty acids in cecal contents, plasma PYY (GLP - 1 not measured), and gene transcription for PYY and proglucagon.

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Fiber ensures optimal motility (movement) of the rabbit's digestive tract, which helps prevent problems such as cecal impaction (entrapment of digestive tract contents in the cecum) and hairballs (obstruction of the digestive tract by hair ingested while grooming).