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Frontier research in intestinal health of pigs and chickens

Edited by: Prof Sung Woo Kim

Global livestock production has been moving toward the removal of antimicrobial growth promoters in feed. Enteric disease, however, has been one of key problems in livestock production. In the era of AGP free production with existing enteric diseases, understanding and efforts to enhance intestinal health of young animals is the primary goal of successful livestock production. This special issue targets to invite review papers and research papers from frontier scientists in the areas of nutrition, immunology, physiology, and veterinary science with direct application to monogastric animals. 

This series was published in Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology. 

  1. Intestinal microbiota is critical for maintaining animal health and homeostasis. However, involvement of the fungal community, also known as the mycobiota, in animal health and disease is poorly understood. Th...

    Authors: Qing Yang, Jing Liu, Kelsy J. Robinson, Melanie A. Whitmore, Sydney N. Stewart and Guolong Zhang
    Citation: Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology 2021 12:107
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  2. Gut microbiota plays a key role in health, immunity, digestion, and production in layers. Factors such as environment, diet, diseases, stress, and flock management significantly affect gut microbiota; however,...

    Authors: Nitish Narendra Joat, Samiullah Khan and Kapil Chousalkar
    Citation: Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology 2021 12:78
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  3. Weaning is one of the major factors that cause stress and intestinal disease in piglets. Protocatechuic acid (PCA) is an active plant phenolic acid which exists in Chinese herb, Duzhong (Eucommia ulmoides Oliver)...

    Authors: Ruizhi Hu, Ziyu He, Ming Liu, Jijun Tan, Hongfu Zhang, De-Xing Hou, Jianhua He and Shusong Wu
    Citation: Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology 2020 11:92
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  4. The constant interaction between diet and intestinal barrier has a crucial role in determining gut health in pigs. Hermetia illucens (HI) meal (that represents a promising, alternative feed ingredient for product...

    Authors: Ilaria Biasato, Ilario Ferrocino, Elena Colombino, Francesco Gai, Achille Schiavone, Luca Cocolin, Valeria Vincenti, Maria Teresa Capucchio and Laura Gasco
    Citation: Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology 2020 11:64
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  5. Antibiotic growth promoters (AGPs) have been used as growth promoters to maintain animal intestinal health and improve feed efficiency in broilers by inhibiting pathogen proliferation. In view of the growing e...

    Authors: Shengru Wu, Jian Wang, Liqin Zhu, Hao Ren and Xiaojun Yang
    Citation: Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology 2020 11:61
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  6. The gut microbiota plays an important role in the colonisation resistance and invasion of pathogens. Salmonella Typhimurium has the potential to establish a niche by displacing the microbiota in the chicken gut c...

    Authors: Samiullah Khan and Kapil K. Chousalkar
    Citation: Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology 2020 11:29
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  7. Clostridium species, as a predominant cluster of commensal bacteria in our gut, exert lots of salutary effects on our intestinal homeostasis. Up to now, Clostridium species have been reported to attenuate inflamm...

    Authors: Pingting Guo, Ke Zhang, Xi Ma and Pingli He
    Citation: Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology 2020 11:24
    Content type: Review Published on:

  8. The relationship between diet and intestinal microbiota and mucin composition appears to be fundamental for poultry gut health. The effects of insect meal (whose role as alternative feed ingredient is now well...

    Authors: Ilaria Biasato, Ilario Ferrocino, Sihem Dabbou, Rocchina Evangelista, Francesco Gai, Laura Gasco, Luca Cocolin, Maria Teresa Capucchio and Achille Schiavone
    Citation: Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology 2020 11:11
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  9. Following the intake of Fusarium mycotoxin-contaminated feed, small intestines may be exposed to high levels of toxic substances that can potentially damage intestinal functions in livestock. It is well known tha...

    Authors: Xu Ji, Qing Zhang, Weijiang Zheng and Wen Yao
    Citation: Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology 2019 10:9
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  10. Poultry is widely produced and consumed meat globally. Its demand is expected to continue increasing to meet the animal protein requirement for ever-increasing human population. Thus, the challenge that poultr...

    Authors: Sudhir Yadav and Rajesh Jha
    Citation: Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology 2019 10:2
    Content type: Review Published on:

  11. The gut microbiome has long been known to play fundamentally important roles in the animal health and the well-being of its host. As such, the establishment and maintenance of a beneficial gut microbiota early...

    Authors: Robin B. Guevarra, Jun Hyung Lee, Sun Hee Lee, Min-Jae Seok, Doo Wan Kim, Bit Na Kang, Timothy J. Johnson, Richard E. Isaacson and Hyeun Bum Kim
    Citation: Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology 2019 10:1
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