NUTRITION PHYSIOLOGY

General Module

Course Sheet

Academic Year of enrolment:

2017/2018

Type of Course:

Basic

Optional/Mandatory:

Compulsory

Degree:

5-year Single Cycle Master's Degree Programme in VETERINARY MEDICINE

Disciplinary Sector:

Veterinary Physiology

Is part of:

PHYSIOLOGY 2

Credits:

Programme Year:

Professor and Collaborators:

BOMBOI Giovanni Cristoforo

Hours of classroom activity:

Prerequisites:

Those provided in the teaching regulations recommended.

AF code:

40003338

Teaching period

First semester

Objectives

The learning objectives of the course are to provide the basic knowledge of physiology of nutrition in domestic animals to be applied in feeding, reproduction, production and clinics studies.
Lectures face tu face: 15 hours.
Tutorials in pratical activity: 03 hours by group of
students.

Contents

FRONTAL LESSON: Prehension of solid feeds and intake of liquids. Chewing. Saliva. Deglutition. food intake regulation. Transit in the esophagous. Gastric digestion. Digestion in the small intestine. Pancreatic juice. Bile. Digestion in the cecum and colon. Digestion in the large intestine. Absorption processes and motor activity. Digestion in ruminants. Digestion of cellulose, proteins and lipids. Protein and non-protein nitrogen intake. Belching. Rumination. Motor activity. Processes of ruminal absorption and metabolism of volatile fatty acids, protein and non-protein nitrogen and lipids. Feeding behavior: Factors regulating feed ingestion. Diets rich in concentrates: ruminal acidosis. Ketosis. Ammonia toxicity, nitrate and oxalic acid toxicity. Meteorism. Physiology of nutrition under feeding stress. Digestion in newborns. Liver. Destination of nutrients: plastic and energetic destination of nutrients during lactation, dry-off and pregnancy periods. Digestion in poultry and in fish species.
PRACTICAL ACTIVITIES: collection and physical-chemical and microbiological analysis of ruminal fluid in Sardinian sheep.

Recommended Bibliography

Course materials of lectures and practical activities are available at multimedia platform eUNISS-eLearning.
1) Aguggini G., Beghelli V., Giulio L. 1998.Fisiologia degli animali domestici con elementi di etologia. UTET, Turin, Italy.
2) Cunningham J. G. 2002. Textbook of Veterinary Physiology. 3rd ed. W.B. Saunders, Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A.
3) Dukes M., Swenson J., Reece W. O. 1993. Physiology of Domestic Animals. 11th ed. Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY, USA.
4) Clement M.G.2009. Fisiologia Veterinaria. Point Veterinaire Italie Editore, Milan, Italy.
5) Fisiologia degli animali domestici.2013.O.V. Sjaastad, O. Sand, K. Hove.Casa Editrice
Ambrosiana.Milan

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