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Inulin diet:
↑
change from baseline in fecal
acetate (control: -37.7 μmol/g
vs. inulin 85.5 μmol/g) and
sCfa concentrations (control:
-53.5 μmol/g vs. inulin: 145.5
μmol/g)**
↑
Change in fecal lactobacilli
concentrations (7%)**
Middelbos et
al., 2007
11
nutrient digestibility
6 purpose-bred
adult female dogs
(4.5 yr of age; 23
kg bW)
350 g/d
1. Control- no supplemental
fermentable carbohydrate
scfos (nutralora P-95,
gtC nutrition, golden,
Co)
supplemented diets
fecal microbial
populations
↓
CP digestibility (15%)**
2. Control + 2.5% cellulose
yCW (safmannan,
Lesaffre yeast Corp.,
Milwaukee, Wi)
↑
fecal biidobacteria
concentrations (14%)**
fecal fermentative
end-products
3. Control + 2.5% beet pulp
↑
fecal lactobacilli
concentrations (8%)*
immunological
indices
4. Control + 1.0% cellulose +
1.5% scfos
↑
fecal butyrate concentrations
(67%)**
5. Control + 1.0% cellulose +
1.2% scfos +0.3% yCW
6. Control + 1.0% cellulose +
0.9% scfos + 0.6% yCW
time on treatment: 14 d
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