BLOG: The piglet gut profits infant nutrition

Next to rats and mice, piglets have become one of the most frequently used animal models to study human neonatal nutrition. The piglet is often the model of choice because of its metabolic similarity to humans, particularly the growing infant and child. But how can animal nutritionist benefit from it as well? Although the studies, in which piglets are used as a model, are often aimed to build a comprehensive set of data for developing new infant food products or to understand why young children