Interfacing Immunity, Gut Health and Performance

Authors: Edited by LA Tucker and JA Taylor-Pickard
This collection of papers is 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.

The book's chief aim is to provide an overview of key elements of related disciplines, some of which are highly technical in nature, in an efficient manner, whilst relating the science back to practical animal production. It is useful as an update on the status of specialised topics such as digestive physiology, gut microbiology and immunology.
Interfacing Immunity, Gut Health and Performance is aimed at practical nutritionists and meat producers as well as students and researchers studying animal and applied biological sciences.

Availability: In Print
Publication date: August 2004
Binding: Paperback
Extent: 120 pp.
ISBN: 1-904761-29-1

Book 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
• The potential for immunosaccharides to maximise growth performance - a review of six published meta-analyses in Bio-Mos
• Index