- Docente: Nadia Govoni
- Credits: 3
- SSD: BIO/09
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in School of Animal Biotechnology (cod. 8207)
Learning outcomes
The course is aimed at analysing digestive strategies in the
different species in order to give a theoretical basis on animal
nutrition and alimentation
Course contents
Digestive strategies in domestic species. regulation of appetite.
Prehension, mastication. Salivary secretion; composition and
functions of saliva. The stomach: contraction and secretions. The
forestomach; contractions of the reticulum and rumen and their
regulation. Rumination, eructation. Microorganisms in the rumen:
metabolism of carbohydrates, proteins and fats in the forestomach.
Absorption from the forestomach. The pancreas and the liver.
Digestion and absorption in small intestine. The large intestine.
Notes of the birde's gastrointestinal tracts.
Readings/Bibliography
Assessment methods
Final oral exam
Teaching tools
Projector, PC, transparencies, laboratori
Links to further information
http://campus.cib.unibo.it/34047/
Office hours
See the website of Nadia Govoni