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Influence of intestinal microflora on the tryptic activity during lactation in rats
Laboratory Animals
|July 1, 1986
Abstract:
On comparing germ-free and conventional rats, inactivation of the tryptic activity was found to take place in the caecum of conventional adult rats only. A microbial intestinal inactivation of the tryptic activity was established in suckling conventional rats within 10 days after birth. At 3 weeks of age, suckling germ-free rats were found to have less faecal tryptic activity than their early-weaned littermates.