To contract and churn the food to break it down into smaller molecules
Antagonsitic effect/interaction/response
In order to combat antiobiotic resistance, and to possibly enhance the activity of antibiotics, they are sometimes used in combinations during treatment. However, three possible responses or effects can manifest.
First is antibiotic synergy, where the combined effect of the antibiotics enhances the activity/potency of the treatment compared to when the antibiotics are administered singly.
The effect is also distinguished from another type of response, which is additive effect, where the combined effect of the antibiotics is more or less equal to the combined activity/potency of each of the antibiotic when applied singly. Antibiotic synergy results in even greater enhancement of the activity of the combined antibiotics compared to additive effect.
Lastly, there is the antagonistic effect or response, where the combined effect of the antibiotics results in the weakening of the potencies of the antibiotics relative to the combined (additive effect) potencies of each of the antibiotics.
Vibrissae, more commonly known as whiskers, are sensory hair
that generally have a tactile sense, which is equivalent to skin. They grow on
most mammals except monotremes (duck-billed platypus and echidnas) and humans,
though humans still have remnants of the muscles once associated with vibrissae
in their upper lips. Vibrissae serve a number of purposes: such as sense of
touch; detection of danger, air and water currents, and movements of other
animals; and the locating of food.
