Potential Advantages of Butyrate in Egg Production
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12/02/2014 |
| | Butyric acid is available commercially as a sodium salt, encapsulated to prevent absorption in the upper intestinal tract. Butyrate has a variety of biological functions which include:- - Serving as a direct energy source for enterocytes
- Functioning as a ligand for transmembrane receptors
- Modulation of gene activity
- Stimulating peptides that are involved in the immune response
- Reducing intestinal motility and hence passage of ingesta, enhancing digestion of nutrients
- Increasing the secretion of peptides which lead to enhanced proliferation of enterocytes for improved repair of damaged mucosa and increased height of villi.
- Down-regulation of the Salmonella pathogenicity Island 1 (SPI-1) gene expression which reduces colonization of enterocytes.
- Sodium butyrate has a positive effect on the composition of components of the flora that secrete lactic acid in the lower intestinal tract
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