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Friday, January 15, 2021
What is the impact of diet on nutritional diarrhoea associated with gut microbiota in weaning piglets: A system review
Weaning is sudden and stressful and one of the most challenging periods in a pig's life. Newly weaned pigs are usually stressed by nutritional, psychological, environmental, physiological, and social factors. Because of such stressors, ...
Thursday, January 7, 2021
Current challenges in young animal nutrition
The nutrition of young animals is essential. Why? At this stage of life, they are very susceptible. Their gut health, robustness, and resilience are still immature, going together with increased early mortality.
Sunday, November 29, 2020
Factors to consider when feeding higher levels of copper in broiler production
Can feeding higher levels of copper in broiler diets cost-effectively support poultry gut heath and help manage challenges such as heat stress? To address such questions, Trouw Nutrition, a Nutreco company, is sharing research data suggesti ...
Tuesday, October 27, 2020
Leaky gut and mycotoxins aflatoxin B1 does not increase gut permeability in broiler chickens
Previous studies conducted in our laboratory have demonstrated that intestinal barrier function can be adversely affected by diet ingredients or feed restriction, resulting in increased intestinal inflammation-associated permeability. Two e ...
Thursday, October 22, 2020
Quorum quenching by Bacillus subtilis PB6 - Abolishing clostridial infections and disease progression in livestock through the disruption of cell-to-cell communication thereby improving broiler performance
Pathogenic bacteria invade their hosts through a variety of mechanisms. For certain pathogens, including those of veterinary importance, initiation of infection and disease progression is modulated by a process called quorum sensing (QS)1. ...
Friday, October 9, 2020
Dietary soy protein sources make a difference in AGP-free poultry production
The addition of HP AviStart™ in starter feed, with or without antibiotic growth promoters, may equal the feed conversion rate of chickens with gut inflammations to those of healthy birds.
Friday, September 25, 2020
Effects of spray-dried animal plasma on the growth performance of weaned piglets - A review
Spray-dried animal plasma sourced from bovine, porcine or other animal origin is often used as a main feed ingredient in the diets of weanling piglets to improve growth performance. The objective of this study was to determine the effect of ...
Friday, September 25, 2020
Spray-dried porcine plasma added to diets contaminated with aflatoxins and fumonisins show beneficial effects to piglet health
This study was aimed to analyze the effects of spray-dried porcine plasma (SDPP) on the health of post weaning piglets challenged with diets contaminated with aflatoxins and fumonisins. Fifty-six male piglets (7.15 ± 0.61 kg) were allocated ...
Tuesday, September 22, 2020
Growth promotion and alleviation of chronic intestinal inflammation by Lumance in broilers under a dietary challenge
Inflammation is a complex physiological response of the immune system to various foreign and/or harmful stimuli that expose the host (Medzhitov, 2010). This physiological reaction, when it involves the gut and gets prolonged and dysregulate ...
Tuesday, September 22, 2020
Host intestinal biomarker identification in a gut leakage model in broilers
Intestinal health problems are a major issue in the poultry industry. Quantifiable easy-to-measure biomarkers for intestinal health would be of great value to monitor subclinical intestinal entities that cause performance problems and to ev ...
Monday, September 21, 2020
Plasma supports pig health and herd productivity
African Swine Fever has significantly reduced the commercial pig herd in Asia. There are now great opportunities for those investing to restock their swine herds. Challenges that the swine industry must navigate through in the short to medi ...
Monday, September 21, 2020
Using Spray-Dried Plasma in Broilers - Lessons Learned
Nutritional strategies that support the immune system, promote intestinal integrity and functionality, and increase tolerance to stress and disease challenges are of interest to the poultry industry. In addition, early nutrition has been re ...
Monday, September 14, 2020
Effects of tributyrin supplementation on growth performance, insulin, blood metabolites and gut microbiota in weaned piglets
In animal farming, alternatives to antibiotics are required due to the increase of antimicrobial resistance. In this contest, tributyrin showed the ability to promote gut health, to modulate gut microbiota and to improve protein digestibili ...
Monday, September 14, 2020
Effects of dietary tributyrin on intestinal mucosa development, mitochondrial function and AMTK-mTOR pathway in weaned pigs
Piglets are often subjected to nutritional, physiological and immunological stresses during the weaning process. It has been determined that weaning can quickly lead to the intestinal-mucosal injury, such as villus atrophy and crypt hyperpl ...
Thursday, September 3, 2020
Intestinal development with glycerides of butyric acid
Butyric acid focuses on intestinal development and gut health. The short-chain fatty acid is an energy source, but more importantly it has antibacterial properties and is therefore applied to young animals. In order to achieve efficacy in t ...
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