Enzymes synthesised in the midgut gland are released into the lumen of the tubules. The proximal ends of the tubules merge to form larger channels which, ultimately, end up as a pair of funnels into the posterior part of the stomach. The enzymes accumulate in the stomach. Food, which is ...
Fig. 1. Effects of CMK on protein metabolism in elderly mice consuming a high-fish-protein diet. Analysis of Food intake (A), Weight changes (B), Organ index (C), Moisture content of the cecal and facal (D), pH of the cecal and facal (E), SCFA content (F), and the Apparent di...
As I mentioned in my GULP review, GUT is a very different book despite all they have in common. Enders spends the bulk of her time in the middle of the alimentary canal, where Roach spends most of her time talking about what happens at the two ends. Enders’s book is about the typic...
The addition of a digestive function to a host defense function in c-type lysozymes has been paralleled in i-type lysozymes, the invertebrate type first identified in the sea starAsteria rubens[45,46]. In bivalve molluscs, bacteria are known to constitute a significant portion of the diet [...
(the clade containing cv-lysozyme 2 and the other digestive lysozymes, cv2C, of Figure6) and the potentially transitional cv-lysozyme 3/cg-lysozyme 4 clade is consistent with an evolutionary history in which the latter are transitional forms that have been lost (or not yet found) in ...