Jim Croom
Professor Emeritus
Education
B.S. Animal Husbandry University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 1972
M.S. Dairy Science (Cytology) University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL 1975
Ph.D. Nutritional Science (NIH Pre-Doctoral Fellow) University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL 1978
Study Leave Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology Duke University, Durham, NC 1987
Area(s) of Expertise
- Neuro/endocrine regulation of the gastrointestinal tract
- Alterations of direct-fed-microbials on host animal tissues and energy expenditures
- Mechanisms of communication between commensal bacteria in the gut and host animal tissues
Publications
- An increase in dietary non-structural carbohydrates alters the structure and metabolism of the rumen epithelium in lambs , CANADIAN JOURNAL OF ANIMAL SCIENCE (2012)
- Direct fed microbial supplementation repartitions host energy to the immune system , JOURNAL OF ANIMAL SCIENCE (2012)
- Ruminal acidosis and the rapid onset of ruminal parakeratosis in a mature dairy cow: a case report , ACTA VETERINARIA SCANDINAVICA (2009)
- Direct-fed microbial PrimaLac and salinomycin modulate whole-body and intestinal oxygen consumption and intestinal mucosal cytokine production in the broiler chick , POULTRY SCIENCE (2007)
- Microarchitecture and spatial relationship between bacteria and ileal, cecal, and colonic epithelium in chicks fed a direct-fed microbial, PrimaLac, and salinomycin , POULTRY SCIENCE (2007)
- Effect of in ovo peptide YY on the ontogeny of glucose transport in turkey poults , International Journal of Poultry Science (2006)
- Effects of diacetoxyscirpenol and fusaric acid on poults: Individual and combined effects of dietary diacetoxyscirpenol and fusaric acid on turkey poult performance , International Journal of Poultry Science (2005)
- High levels of dietary carbohydrate increase glucose transport in poult intestine , COMPARATIVE BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY A-MOLECULAR & INTEGRATIVE PHYSIOLOGY (2005)
- Method of reducing aluminum levels in the central nervous system , (2004)
- Ontogeny of intestinal glucose transport in heavy and light body weight turkey poults , International Journal of Poultry Science (2004)