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Quorum Sensing - a new tool for selecting feed additive ingredients

Published: January 16, 2015
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Nutriad has demonstrated the use of Quorum Sensing (QS) as a tool in the development of two new feed additives: one for broiler production and one for aquaculture. QS Is a form of bacterial communication that is critical to bacterial virulence. By investigating the ability of several highly bioactive compounds to inhibit QS, Nutriad was able to select a combination of components that, in in vivo...
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Tim Goossens
Adisseo
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Stephen Cruda
9 de junio de 2015
There are studies that even exogenous probiotic strains does quorum sensing as their mode of action in pathogen inhibition. This could be a very interesting tool.
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Alexander Nikolov Alexandrov
3 de enero de 2020

It seems useful. Before tried is difficult to say exactly.

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