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Weaning of pigs: duodenal myoelectrical activity during the change from sow's milk to solid feed
 
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Department of Animal Physiology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Warsaw Agricultural University, Nowoursynowska 166, 02-766 Warsaw, Poland
 
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Department of Animal Nutrition and Physiology, Danish Institute of Agricultural Science, Research Centre Foulum, DK-8830 Tjele, Denmark
 
 
Publication date: 1998-08-22
 
 
J. Anim. Feed Sci. 1998;7(Suppl. 1):267-270
 
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Duodenal electromyography (emg) was studied in conscious piglets during the suckling and postweaning period. In suckling piglets, emg showed regular, repeating migrating myoelectric complex (MMC) cycles, each of which was composed of the classical phases I, II and III. During the early postweaning period (1–10 days) feeding with solid feed influenced the duodenal emg. The duration of phase I after weaning was significantly shorter than that before weaning (3.3 vs. 10.6 min, P ≤ 0.01), representing a decrease in duration from 14.6 to 4.6% of the whole MMC (P ≤ 0.01). On the other hand, phase II increased from 79.9 to 89.6% (P ≤ 0.01) after the change in diet. Feeding sow's milk did not disrupt the MMC pattern, however voluntary feed intake of solid feed induced continuous spiking activity of the duodenum for a period of 124 min.
 
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Aspects of gastrointestinal motility in relation to the development of digestive function in neonates
H.N Lærke, V Lesniewska, M.S Hedemann, B.B Jensen, S.G Pierzynowski
Livestock Production Science
 
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