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The effect of cereal by-product dietary fibre on
the serum lipid profile and short-chain fatty acid
concentration in caecal digesta of rats
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National Research Institute of Animal Production,
Department of Animal Nutrition and Feed Science,
32-083 Balice, Poland
Publication date: 2006-09-21
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I. Furgał-Dierżuk
National Research Institute of Animal Production,
Department of Animal Nutrition and Feed Science,
32-083 Balice, Poland
J. Anim. Feed Sci. 2006;15(Suppl. 1):57-60
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ABSTRACT
The hypolipaemic effect of different dietary fibres (cellulose, oat bran, wheat bran) added to
diets for rats was evaluated on 36 animals. The best results in lowering total serum cholesterol
and low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (2.08 and 0.88 mmol/l, respectively) were obtained in the
group with oat bran. The highest total caecal and caecal tissue weights (1.36 and 0.43 g/100 g BW,
respectively) as well as butyric acid production (13.23 µmol/g of caecal content) were observed in
this group as compared with the cellulose and wheat bran groups.