Gut Efficiency—The Key Ingredient in Pig and Poultry Production is taken from a series of seminars that brought together some of the world's leading authorities in the field of pig and poultry nutrition and production.

In Gut Efficiency—The Key Ingredient in Pig and Poultry Production the fundamental theme is to address the interaction between nutrition and the gut ecosystem as a means to enhance health, performance and ultimately profitability.

Contents

How Past Experience Can Dictate Future Developments in the Pork Industry: A Global Perspective

• Effects of Technology on the Efficiency of the Pork Industry
• Factors Affecting Productivity
• Looking Back to go Forward
• The Future

Host and Intestinal Microbiota negotiations in the Context of Animal Growth Efficiency

• The Gut Microbiota is Competitive with the Host in the Small Intestine but Cooperatitive in the Large Intestine
• Gut Bacteria and Intestinal Inflammation
• Bacteria Alter Intestinal Epithelial Turnover and Maintenance Energy Requirements
• Summary and Outlook

Gut Development: Interactions Between Nutrition, Gut Health and Immunity in Young Pigs

• Defence Mechanisms of the Gastrointestinal Tract
• Neonatal Immune Function: General Aspects
• Adaptive Immune Function
• Innate Immune Function
• Weaning and the Mucosal Immune System
• Feed Additives and GIT Immunity

Pig Health and the Modern Genotype: Implications for Performance and Profitability

• Source of Pig Genotypes in Asia
• Disease Patterns

The Role of Fibre in Piglet Gut Health

• Terminology and Chemical Structure
• Physico-Chemical Properties of Fibre
• The Action of Fibre in Stomach and Small Intestine
• The Action of Fibre in Large Intestine
• Fibre and Feed Intake and Performance
• Fibre and Gut Health

Intestinal Balance and Equilibrium: Setting the Scene For Health and Management

• Strategy of Nutrients Recovery
• Crypt Multiplication
• Establishing Enterocyte-Goblet Cells
• Surface Maturation
• Protection

Managing Disease Resistance: Applying Advanced Methods to Understand Gastrointestinal Microbial Communities

• Necrotic Enteritis
• Commensal Bacteria
• Analysis of Intestinal Bacterial Communties

Coccidiosis Control: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

• Prevention and Control: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

Nutrigenomics: Evaluating and Understanding Nutritional Effects on Intestinal Gene Expression and Function

• Animal Nutrition
• The Avian Genome Project
• Utilisation of Genomic Information
• Transcriptomics and the Use of Microarrays for Evaluating Gene Expression
• Avian Research Beyond the Genome
• Role of Mannoproteins and Mannanoligosaccharides in Animal Health
• Selenium Supplementation: Effects on Poultry Performance and Wellbeing
• Nutrigenomics and Organic Selenium Supplementation
• Future of Nutrigenomics in Animal Production

The Role of Nucleotides in Improving Broiler Pre-Starter Diets

• Pre-Starter Diets
• The Effect of NuPro in Pre-Starter Diets

Nutrition and Gut Microbiology:Redirecting Nutrients from the Microbes to the Host Animal with SSF

• Basic Use of Enzymes in the Monogastric Feeds
• Increasing Energy Release from Carbohydrates
• Protein Digestion
• Interaction Between Feed Material, NSPs and Microflora
• Comparing Types of Feed Enzymes
• Using By-Products to Reduce Feed Costs
• DDGS a New Opportunity or a Challenge?
• Nutritional Value of DDGS
• Can SSF be Used to Improve DDGS?

Index

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