Sentence examples for digestive capacity from inspiring English sources

Juvenile swine appear to be a better surrogate for predicting digestive and absorption processes in infants, because of the similarities between them with respect to: gastric hydrochloric acid (HCl) and protease secretion; small intestine configuration; limited digestive capacity, which impedes solid food digestion; and gut maturity [34, 78].

Morag McLaren The fact that you do not digest gluten or lactose well makes me suspicious that your digestive capacity is generally low.

There are circumstances when it can be useful, particularly in the evening, when digestive capacity is believed to be at a low point.

A Detroit newspaper in the late nineteenth century described the squabs as having "the digestive capacity of half a dozen 14-year-old boys".

These data provide a first step toward understanding the molecular events governing the ontogeny of digestive capacity in Atlantic halibut.

They have found that when dietary load increases, midgut stem cells activate a reversible growth program that increases total intestinal cell number and digestive capacity.

These differences in food resource utilization are reflected in the digestive capacities of the two ant species (Heil et al. 2005) and were confirmed by natural abundances of stable isotopes.

In this ant acacia mutualism, the plant manipulates the digestive capacities of the symbiotic ants to enhance their dependence on the host-derived food rewards, thus stabilizing in this way the partnership and avoiding possible interference by exploiters.

Mucosal cell mass was significantly lower in GH deficiency at all ages studied, and digestive hydrolase capacity per cm of intestine was significantly lower in GH-deficient postweaned animals.

The morpho-quantitative data provide a basis for further studies to clarify the influence of HFD in the motility, digestive and absorptive capacity, and intestinal barrier.

However, enteral fasting can predispose a neonate to impaired intestinal growth, mucosal atrophy, intestinal barrier dysfunction, decreased digestive and absorptive capacity, increased colonization with pathogenic bacteria, and systemic inflammation.