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Microbial energy harvest in obesity has been investigated in conventional genetically obese ob/ mice, which have increased amounts of SCFAs in their caecum and reduced energy content in their faeces compared with their lean littermates.

This bacterium populates the ileum and caecum and has long been known to be a potent activator of intestinal immune responses.

Bacteriotherapy involves introducing a faecal sample from a healthy donor as a homogenate by injection into the caecum using a colonoscope.

Most commonly there is a pair of lateral caeca, which may be more or less ramified and may form a massive “hepato-pancreas” or “liver.”

The fine membrane called goldbeater’s skin, used for making up the shoder and mould, is the outer coat of the caecum or blind gut of the ox.