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Animal Nutrition

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  1. This study investigated the humoral immunization of Astragalus polysaccharide (APS) against H9N2 avian influenza virus (H9N2 AIV) infection in chickens.

    Authors: Sanpha Kallon, Xiaorong Li, Jun Ji, Cuiying Chen, Qianyun Xi, Shuang Chang, Chunyi Xue, Jingyun Ma, Qingmei Xie and Youngliang Zhang
    Citation: Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology 2013 4:22
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  2. Increasing the polyunsaturated fatty acid (PUFA) content and decreasing the saturated fatty acid (SFA) content of mutton can help to improve its nutritional value for consumers. Several laboratories have evalu...

    Authors: Kun Liu, Suyun Ge, Hailing Luo, Dubing Yue and Leyan Yan
    Citation: Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology 2013 4:21
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  3. The objective of this study was to investigate the effects of total dietary fiber level on nutrient digestibility and the relationship between apparent total tract digestibility of total dietary fiber, and sol...

    Authors: Wenjuan Zhang, Defa Li, Ling Liu, Jianjun Zang, Qiwu Duan, Wenjun Yang and Liying Zhang
    Citation: Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology 2013 4:17
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  4. Arginine (ARG) exerts many beneficial effects on animal body and enhanced angiogenesis, lactogenesis, which finally leads to the improvement in nitrogen (N) metabolism, reproduction, lactation, immunity and gr...

    Authors: Bahram Chacher, Hongyun Liu, Diming Wang and Jianxin Liu
    Citation: Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology 2013 4:16
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  5. The study was conducted to compare the effects of XG with AG and BM at different metabolizable energy diets on growth performance, digestive physiology and energy utilization of broilers fed with corn-SBM diet...

    Authors: Jialing Zou, Ping Zheng, Keying Zhang, Xuemei Ding and Shiping Bai
    Citation: Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology 2013 4:14
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  6. Objectives were to examine the effects of selenium (Se) supply and maternal nutritional plane during gestation on mammary gland growth, cellular proliferation, and vascularity at parturition and d 20 of lactat...

    Authors: Tammi L Neville, Allison M Meyer, Arshi Reyaz, Pawel B Borowicz, Dale A Redmer, Lawrence P Reynolds, Joel S Caton and Kimberly A Vonnahme
    Citation: Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology 2013 4:6
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  7. In the present study, the effect of 5-aminoimidazole-4-carboxamide ribonucleoside (AICAR) on long-chain fatty acid oxidation by hepatocytes isolated from suckled neonatal pig liver (a low ketogenic and lipogen...

    Authors: Lin Xi, Gary Matsey and Jack Odle
    Citation: Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology 2012 3:30
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  8. The number and diversity of uncultured ruminal bacterial and archaeal species revealed by 16S rRNA gene (rrs) sequences greatly exceeds that of cultured bacteria and archaea. However, the significance of uncultur...

    Authors: Minseok Kim and Zhongtang Yu
    Citation: Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology 2012 3:28
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  9. Feed intake control is vital to ensuring optimal nutrition and achieving full potential for growth and development in poultry. The aim of the present study was to investigate the effects of L-leucine, L-glutam...

    Authors: Songbo Wang, Paul Khondowe, Shengfeng Chen, Jianjian Yu, Gang Shu, Xiaotong Zhu, Lina Wang, Ping Gao, Qianyun Xi, Yongliang Zhang and Qingyan Jiang
    Citation: Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology 2012 3:27
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  10. One experiment was conducted to determine the nutritive value of cholesterol for post-larval shrimp, Litopenaeus vannamei. Four isoenergetic and isonitrogenous diets supplemented with four levels of cholesterol (...

    Authors: Jin Niu, Peng-Fei Chen, Li-Xia Tian, Yong-Jian Liu, Hei-Zhao Lin, Hui-Jun Yang and Gui-Ying Liang
    Citation: Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology 2012 3:19
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  11. A study was undertaken to examine the effects of poultry fat (PF) compared with those of soybean oil (SBO) on intestinal development, fatty acid transporter protein (FATP) mRNA expression, and fatty acid compo...

    Authors: Jianmin Yuan, Bingkun Zhang and Yuming Guo
    Citation: Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology 2012 3:17
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  12. Cathelicidins are a major family of antimicrobial peptides present in vertebrate animals with potent microbicidal and immunomodulatory activities. Four cathelicidins, namely fowlicidins 1 to 3 and cathelicidin...

    Authors: Mallika Achanta, Lakshmi T Sunkara, Gan Dai, Yugendar R Bommineni, Weiyu Jiang and Guolong Zhang
    Citation: Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology 2012 3:15
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  13. This study was conducted to investigate the effect of different dietary ratios of 13 C to 12 C or 15 N to 14 N on their relative incorporation into tissues. Eighty male rats were used in two 21-day feeding trials...

    Authors: Wentao Lv, Tingting Ju, Bing Dong, Boyang Yu and Jingdong Yin
    Citation: Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology 2012 3:14
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  14. A total of 335 lactating sows (Landrace × Large White) were used in two experiments to determine the optimum ratio of standardized ileal digestible lysine (SID-Lys) to metabolizable energy (ME) for mixed parit...

    Authors: Lingfeng Xue, Xiangshu Piao, Defa Li, Pengfei Li, Rongfei Zhang, Sung Woo Kim and Bing Dong
    Citation: Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology 2012 3:11
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  15. Little information is available about the nutritive value of expanded soybean meal, which is produced by expansion of soybeans prior to solvent extraction of the oil. During processing, expanded soybean meal i...

    Authors: Eman A Elwakeel, Evan C Titgemeyer, Zongjia J Cheng, Abdelaziz M Nour and Mohamed EA Nasser
    Citation: Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology 2012 3:10
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  16. A total of 2,121 growing-finishing pigs (Duroc × Landrace × Large White) were utilized in six experiments conducted to determine the effects of different ratios of standardized ileal digestible lysine (SID-Lys...

    Authors: Pengfei Li, Zhikai Zeng, Ding Wang, Lingfeng Xue, Rongfei Zhang and Xiangshu Piao
    Citation: Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology 2012 3:9
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  17. Neonatal growth is characterized by a high protein synthesis rate that is largely due to an enhanced sensitivity to the postprandial rise in insulin and amino acids, especially leucine. The mechanism of leucin...

    Authors: Agus Suryawan, Hanh V Nguyen, Rosemarie D Almonaci and Teresa A Davis
    Citation: Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology 2012 3:3
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  18. Glutamine is the most abundant amino acid in milk, and lactation is associated with increased glutamine utilization both for milk synthesis and as a fuel for the enlarged small intestine. A number of recent st...

    Authors: Helena Emilia CCC Manso, Helio C Manso Filho, Luiz E de Carvalho, Marianne Kutschenko, Eduardo T Nogueira and Malcolm Watford
    Citation: Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology 2012 3:2
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