Exempel på caeca

• Given adequate chemotactic or other directional information, it is not impossible to imagine them making their way into the caeca by their own efforts.

• None was attached to the intestinal wall and none was found in the pyloric caeca.

• Two nematode species were recovered from both the gizzard and caeca, and a single nematode species from the proventriculus and crop, respectively.

• The stomach, pyloric caeca and intestine were separated and opened longitudinally.

• The caeca are blind parts of the intestine with no continuous through-flow of gut contents.

• The caeca seem to be periodic in their filling and emptying activities.

• Some of the intestines and pyloric caeca were processed for histology.

• The strain used colonized caeca and internal organs of chickens to a high extent 1 week after infection with a low-dose inoculum.

• The caeca and vitellaria were also adversely affected by drug treatment.

• Birds were then euthanased and their caeca removed for parasite and parasite egg estimation.

• Alternatively, immature worms may migrate from the intestine to the pyloric caeca as they develop.

• Few oocysts could be recovered from caeca given a zero score and therefore these caeca were not used for the selection of a resistant line.

• The caeca of all chickens were isolated aseptically after necropsy.

• The columns represent the number of birds from each group, as a percentage, from which the inoculated strain was isolated from the caeca.

• The crop caeca were also examined for the presence of trypanosome forms.