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Gut Health

Thursday, June 17, 2021
Pretreatment with probiotics ameliorate gut health and necrotic enteritis in broiler chickens, a substitute to antibiotics
Necrotic enteritis (NE) is being considered as one of the most important intestinal diseases in the recent poultry production systems, which causes huge economic losses globally. NE is caused by Clostridium perfringens, a pathogenic bacteri ...
Thursday, June 10, 2021
A cross-sectional study of antimicrobial usage on commercial broiler and layer chicken farms in Bangladesh
Commercial poultry production is growing rapidly in Bangladesh to address the increasing demand for poultry meat and eggs. Challenges faced by producers include the occurrence of poultry diseases, which are usually treated or controlled by ...
Thursday, June 10, 2021
Gut health - the key to good performance
Perhaps as a farmer or feed compounder you believe that you know exactly what constitutes 'gut health'. Yet defining gut health isn't easy. A healthy gut must be healthy physically, chemically and immunologically. It must play h ...
Thursday, June 10, 2021
Say no to antibiotics with glycerides - part 1: 'monoglycerides'
Worldwide, nutritionists and researchers are working on the development of high quality animal feed without growth-promoting antibiotics (AMGPs). Despite the fact that this effort has clearly paid off, still there is a long way to go in ter ...
Wednesday, June 2, 2021
Alternatives to antibiotics: A symposium on the challenges and solutions for animal health and production
Antibiotics have improved the length and quality of life of people worldwide and have had an immeasurable influence on agricultural animal health and the efficiency of animal production over the last 60 years. The increased affordability of ...
Wednesday, June 2, 2021
Focusing on feed hygiene and gut health is two steps closer to NAE
To achieve the goal of no antibiotics ever, the industry needs to look at all areas of the production system. Optimizing management, health and nutrition, whilst reducing exposure to pathogens. Both gut health and feed hygiene are key drive ...
Wednesday, June 2, 2021
Effects of a diformate-monolaurate agglomerate in the lactation diet of sows on the performance of suckling piglets
It is widely agreed that establishing and maintaining good gut health is an effective strategy against intestinal pathogens and is the cornerstone to competitive animal production. In the past, this strategy was only made possible through t ...
Friday, May 21, 2021
Gut health and mycotoxins - What do we know so far
The gastrointestinal tract represents the first barrier against ingested chemicals, feed contaminants and natural toxins. Following ingestion of mycotoxin-contaminated feed, intestinal epithelial cells can be exposed to high concentrations ...
Friday, May 21, 2021
Triggering disease - endotoxins in animal production should not be underestimated
Bad health status of the animals in stressful situations or an aggravation of the disease after antibiotic treatment? The answer might be endotoxins.
Friday, May 14, 2021
What poultry producers should know about endotoxins
Effective endotoxin management is a crucial task for poultry producers, allowing them to safeguard their animals' health and productivity. In this second part of our two-part series on endotoxin management for poultry, we look at the st ...
Friday, May 14, 2021
Immunomodulatory effects of heat stress and lipopolysaccharide on the bursal transcriptome in two distinct chicken lines
Transcriptome analysis identified genes and pathways involved in bursal responses to heat stress and LPS and elucidated that these effects were greatest in the combined treatment. The interaction between heat and LPS was line dependent, wit ...
Friday, May 7, 2021
Efficacy of mycotoxin detoxifiers on health and growth of newly-weaned pigs under chronic dietary challenge of deoxynivalenol
Mycotoxin detoxifiers could partially overcome deoxynivalenol toxicity enhancing liver health, whereas CYE and CYB reduced oxidative stress, and CYC and CYB reduced immune activation. In conclusion, yeast-based detoxifiers with functional c ...
Tuesday, May 4, 2021
What poultry producers should know about endotoxins
Effective endotoxin management is a crucial task for poultry producers, allowing them to safeguard their animals' health and productivity. In this first part of our two-part series on endotoxin management for poultry, we look at the str ...
Tuesday, May 4, 2021
Lipopolysaccharide induces acute bursal atrophy in broiler chicks by activating TLR4-MAPK-NF-kB/AP-1 signaling
We investigated the mechanisms that induce atrophy of the chicken bursa of Fabricius (BF) upon lipopolysaccharide (LPS) treatment in young chicks. LPS treatment resulted in ~36% decrease in bursal weight within 36 h (P < 0.01). Histological ...
Monday, May 3, 2021
Endotoxin translocation and gut inflammation are increased in broiler chickens receiving an oral lipopolysaccharide (LPS) bolus during heat stress
Lipopolysaccharides (LPS), also termed endotoxins, are the major component of the outer membrane of Gram-negative bacteria. In general, endotoxins in the intestine are considered harmless in healthy animals. However, different stressors, su ...
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