Wen, Chao Su, Yue Tao, Zhengguo Cheng, Zongjia Zhou, Di Wang, Tian Zhou, Yanmin
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The Journal of Poultry Science
This study was conducted to compare the efficacy of diet supplemented with non-microencapsulated lutein (NL) and microencapsulated lutein (ML) in laying hens. A total of 270 Hy-line Brown laying hens (54 weeks old) were allocated to three groups with six replicates of 15 hens and were adapted to a wheat-soybean meal basal diet for two weeks. Next, ...
Pirman, Tatjana Rezar, Vida Vrecl, Milka Salobir, Janez Levart, Alenka
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The Journal of Poultry Science
An experiment in broilers was conducted to investigate the effect of olive ( Olea europea ) leaves and marigold ( Calendula officinalis ) petal extract supplementation on oxidative stress, characteristics of intestinal contents, and on the morphology of the small intestine. Oxidative stress was induced by a n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids rich diet...
Zhang, Min Zheng, Dan Peng, Zhimei Zhu, Yuting Li, Rongrong Wu, Qiong Li, Yan Li, Hongyi Xu, Weihua Zhang, Mao
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The Journal of Poultry Science
In this study, signaling pathways and key differentially expressed genes (DEGs) involved in lipid metabolism in muscle and fat tissues were investigated. Muscle and abdominal fat tissues were obtained from 35-day-old female broilers for RNA sequencing. DEGs between muscle and fat tissues were identified. Gene ontology (GO) and Kyoto Encyclopedia of...
Makino, Ryosuke Uda, Maaya Shuto, Syoko Kita, Kazumi Tachibana, Tetsuya
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The Journal of Poultry Science
Glycation is a non-enzymatic reaction inducing the bonding of glucose to amino acids and proteins. Glycated amino acids are not useful for protein synthesis, suggesting that glycation reduces the utilization of amino acids. Metformin (MF) is well known as a therapeutic drug for type II diabetes that inhibits glycation. It is possible that treatment...
Takaya, Tomohide Nihashi, Yuma Ono, Tamao Kagami, Hiroshi
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The Journal of Poultry Science
Skeletal muscle myoblasts are myogenic precursor cells that generate myofibers during muscle development and growth. We recently reported that broiler myoblasts, compared to layer myoblasts, proliferate and differentiate more actively and promptly into myocytes, which corresponds well with the muscle phenotype of broilers. Furthermore, RNA sequenci...
Nishiyama, Toki Ashida, Nobuhisa Nakagawa, Koichi Iwatani, Shun Yamamoto, Naoyuki
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The Journal of Poultry Science
Among the reported probiotic Bacillus strains, B. subtilis C-3102 has the unique potential to improve feed uptake under stress conditions in the broilers, piglets, and cows. In this study, we sought to evaluate the protective effect of feed additive probiotic Bacillus subtilis C-3102 against Salmonella enterica infection of specific pathogen-free (...
Haqani, Mohammad I. Kawamura, Kensuke Takenouchi, Atsushi Kabir, Mohammad H. Nakamura, Yoshiaki Ishikawa, Akira Tsudzuki, Masaoki
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The Journal of Poultry Science
This study aimed to evaluate the differences between the growth patterns of large- and normal-sized Japanese quail strains and their F1 progeny, by fitting their growth parameter values to five nonlinear regression growth models (Weibull, Logistic, Gompertz, Richards, and Brody). The Richards model presented the best fit for both sexes of the large...
Wen, Chao Leng, Zhixian Chen, Yueping Ding, Liren Wang, Tian Zhou, Yanmin
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The Journal of Poultry Science
The aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of dietary betaine (BET) on growth performance, redox state, and related gene expression in broilers under heat stress (HS). A total of 144 21-day-old male broiler chickens with similar body weights were assigned randomly to three treatments with six replicates (eight chickens per replicate cage). B...
Sangkaew, Manisa Koh, Katsuki
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The Journal of Poultry Science
The present study was conducted to analyze the chemical properties of persimmon peel (PP) and the in vitro digestibility of shrimp meal (SM) diets containing PP. Discussions whether PP can be used as a feed additive to promote digestion of SM in chickens are also included. The chemical composition and chitinase activity of dried PP was studied. SM ...
Cheng, Yeong-Hsiang Horng, Yi-Bing Dybus, Andrzej Yu, Yu-Hsiang
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The Journal of Poultry Science
Necrotic enteritis caused by Clostridium perfringens has reemerged as a severe poultry disease worldwide since the ban on the routine use of antibiotics in animal feed. Probiotics are considered alternatives to antibiotic growth promoters. Bacillus species are the most common microorganisms used as probiotics in the feed industry. The current study...
