Digesta viscosity, nutrient digestibility and organ weights in African catfish (Clarias gariepinus) fed diets supplemented with different levels of a soluble non-starch polysaccharide

By J. Leenhouwers, D. Adjei-Boateng, Johan Verreth, J. Schrama. 2006

146 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Animal Science and Zoology, Aquatic Science, Plant Science

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In Animal Science and Zoology

1. J. Schrama
2. J. Leenhouwers
3. Johan Verreth
4. F. Gatesoupe

In Aquatic Science

1. J. Schrama
2. J. Leenhouwers
3. Johan Verreth
4. K. Becker
5. H. Makkar
6. S. Kaushik
7. S. Rawles
8. K. Thompson

In Plant Science

1. H. Makkar
2. Vikas Kumar
3. K. Becker

Citations in the corpus

• Digestibility of Dry Matter, Protein, Lipid, and Organic Matter of Two Fish Meals, Two Poultry By-product Meals, Soybean Meal, and Distiller's Dried Grains with Solubles in Practical Diets for Sunshine Bass, Morone chrysops 3 M. saxatilis (2008, methodology): “However, Leenhouwers et al. (2007) reported little reduction in lipid digestibility in African catfish, C. gariepinus, fed diets containing various levels of NSPs. Diets in the present study were extruded in order to mimic industry conditions and improve the relevancy of results for production…”
• Influence of partial substitution of dietary fish meal on the activity of digestive enzymes in the intestinal brush border membrane of gilthead sea bream, Sparus aurata and goldfish, Carassius auratus (2010, background): “Plant-derived protein sources, such as soybeans and lupin, are considered as interesting alternatives for fish meal, because they are widely available and do not conflict with human food security interests (Leenhouwers et al., 2006).”
• Digesta characteristiscs and performance of African catfish (Clarias gariepinus) fed cereal grains that differ in viscosity (2007, background): “9 cP) increase proximal digesta viscosity in African catfish (Leenhouwers et al., 2006).”
• Non-starch polysaccharides and their role in fish nutrition – A review (2011, background): “characteristics were not accompanied by reduced fish performance (Leenhouwers et al., 2006).”
• Effect of partial fish meal replacement by soybean meal on the growth performance and biochemical indices of juvenile Japanese flounder Paralichthys olivaceus (2011, background): “…Tantikitti et al. 2005), the presence of several antinutritional factors that increase digesta viscosity and transit rate (Francis et al. 2001; Leenhouwers et al. 2006), secretion of pancreatic proteases (Olli et al. 1994), and/or cause typical histopathology changes in intestine…”