Digestive System of Vertebrates: Mammals: Hamster

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THE DIGESTIVE SYSTEM OF VERTEBRATES

MAMMALS: Hamster

Hamster (Cricetus cricetus) digestive tract (Stevens & Hume 1995)

Table 7-3 (CD Table 8.3)
Chitinase activity in mammals

Table 7-5b (CD Table 8.6b)
Disaccharidase activity in eutherian mammals

Enzymatic activity is designated as + (present), trace or 0 (absent). Results in brackets indicate use of and alternate substrate. All data from adult specimens. (from Vonk and Western 1984 plus perissodactyla data from Roberts 1975)

Table 8.5. Short-chain fatty acids in the foregut of herbivorous birds and mammals. (CD Table 9.5)
Short chain fatty acids in the foregut of birds and mammals

Short chain fatty acids in the foregut of birds and mammals

Dashes indicate absence of information. Contributions of SCFA to maintenance energy were estimated from the rate of SCFA production by in vitro isotope dilution or measurements of digesta flow. Total maintenance energy was either calculated as twice the BMR or assumed to be equivalent to ad libitum digestible energy intake in captive, nonreproducing, adult animals. (From Stevens and Hume 1995)