The bacteriostatic effects of extracts of chicken duodenum on certain micro-organisms. I.—crude extracts

✍ Scribed by J. Barrett; N. J. Berridge

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1953
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 438 KB
• Volume: 4
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0022-5142
• DOI: 10.1002/jsfa.2740040204

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

Aqueous extracts of the contents of the duodenum of chickens have been found on many occasions to be bacteriostatic. On some occasions such extracts were stimulatory. Stimulatory extracts were rendered inhibitory by removing the substances precipitated by alcohol. These and other properties suggest that the bacteriostatic activity was at least partly due to the presence of fatty acids. The inhibitory substances were present in the gut of the chicken before hatching.