Sentence examples for the ceca from inspiring English sources

The macerated and partly digested food slowly works its way through the filtering system of the pyloric stomach into the ceca, or pouches, of the hepatopancreas.

In the ceca, OABF inclusion increased digesta levels of Clostridium coccoides (PO = 0.018) and Clostridium leptum (PO = 0.040) subgroups, while it up-regulated MUC2 expression (PO = 0.014).

At this age, the challenge tended to increase (P = 0.07) Bacteroides amount in the ceca of broilers, and the higher level of hops β-acids tended to decrease (P = 0.09) its amount when compared to the lower level.

The substitution pattern at the 3-phenyl ring highly influenced the ceCA inhibitory activity of these heterocyclic sulfonamides, with best inhibitors (KIs in the range of 6.0 13.4 nM) incorporating 3-methyl-, 4-methyl-, 2-/3-/4-fluoro-, 4-chloro- and 3-/4-bromo-phenyl such moieties.

This difference probably relates to the lower concentrations of absorbable cephalosporins maintained in the ceca of the hamsters.

Here, both β-defensins 10 and 12 gene expression were significantly up-regulated in the ceca of AI birds when compared to the ceca of BI birds.

The ceca and spleen were aseptically removed from each bird and homogenized in PBS.

The cecae appeared normal, and only few oocysts were observed in scrapings.

E. tenella mainly replicates in the epithelium of the cecae, but developing stages of E. tenella have been found in the bursa of Fabricius [ 13], also involved in replication of IBDV [ 20].

Lesions were observed by gross examination of cecae from the three groups of chickens infected with coccidia (groups 1, 3 and 4) on day 31, seven days after inoculation, and at the same time numerous unsporulated oocysts, corresponding in morphology and size to E. tenella were seen by microscopy of scrapings from the cecae.

Δ katA and Δ sodB single mutants were also unable to colonize the chick ceca (the number of mutants per gram of cecum was below the detection limit), and the colonizing ability of the Δ ahpC mutant was 50,000-fold lower than that of the wild-type strain.