“…The chemical stimulus is dependent on the composition of the feed and it has been noted that different nutrients are not equally essential in inducing the postprandial hyperemia (Chou et al, 1972;Kvietys et al, 1981;Siregar and Chou, 1982). The exact mechanism controlling the hyperemia in mammals is under debate but may involve direct effects from the absorbed nutrients on the vasculature , endocrine factors (Biber, 1973;Chou et al, 1977;Chou et al, 1984;Fara et al, 1972), non-metabolic vasoactive factors (Chou et al, 1989;Chou and Siregar, 1982;Sawmiller and Chou, 1988;Sawmiller and Chou, 1990), metabolic vasoactive factors (Bohlen, 1980a;Bohlen, 1980b;Bohlen, 1998a;Pawlik et al, 1980) and neural mechanisms (Biber, 1973;Kato et al, 1989;Takagi et al, 1988). There are, however, large variations in mammals reported in the literature, which, to some extent, can be explained by large interspecies differences.…”