As animal science becomes more 'multi-factorial' in its nature, understanding across disciplines will become crucial in adapting animal production practices to meet both economic and welfare demands.
This edited collection of papers is taken from a series of one day seminars, devoted to bringing together the disciplines of monogastric animal production, feed, gut physiology, microbial populations and immunity, in an understandable manner for practical nutritionists and meat producers.
Interfacing Immunity, Gut Health and Performance is aimed at nutritionists and animal producers as well as students and researchers studying animal and applied biological sciences.
Contents
- Future challenges in poultry meat production
- Early gut development: the interaction between feed, gut health and immunity
- Interaction of nutrition with intestinal microbial communities
- Commensal bacteria and intestinal development: studies using gnotobiotic pigs
- Regulation of gut function and immunity
- Controlling gastrointestinal disease to improve absorptive membrane integrity and optimize digestion efficiency
- Impact of mannan oligosaccharide on gut health and pig performance
- Index