Intestinal Health Technical Articles
Article published the April 4, 2019:
Humic acids (HA) are a principal component of humic substances in organic constituents of soil, compost and coal; however, HA are also an important organic component in streams, lakes, and oceans (Lehmann and K...
Article published the January 30, 2019:
Introduction
Necrotic enteritis (NE) is one of the most important enteric infectious diseases affecting global poultry production with an estimated annual economic loss of more than $2 billion, largely attribu...
Article published the October 3, 2018:
Poultry production systems are highly challenging. They are affected by environmental factors like temperature, ventilation, population density and other stressing agents (Rocha et al., 2014). Additionally, pat...
Article published the May 28, 2018:
Heat stress pathophysiology
As birds are homeothermic animals, they are able to maintain a relatively constant body temperature by balancing the production and dissipation of heat within their body. The main...
Article published the May 18, 2018:
A key mechanism behind improvements of poultry health and productivity.
The success of poultry industry is largely due to the genetic selection of broilers. Nowadays, the growth capacity of chickens has been g...
Article published the May 2, 2018:
Gut infections can be a major source of efficiency loss, downtime and additional costs for veterinary treatment. Microbiota stabilization is central to the health of the digestive system. By reinforcing the com...
Article published the March 22, 2018:
Introduction
Wheat, maize and sorghum are the three most commonly used grains in the poultry industry worldwide (Liu et al., 2014). These cereal grains usually constitute a major proportion (60 - 70%) of the d...
Article published the January 18, 2018:
INTRODUCTION
The intestinal epithelium constitutes the largest and most important barrier against external environmental agents and has two critical functions: to prevent the entry of harmful intraluminal mic...
Article published the December 14, 2017:
Background
The avian ceca generally have a more important role in digestion than the cecum in most mammals. Avian ceca are usually finger-shaped blind pouches, presenting as lateral extensions at the junction ...
Article published the December 5, 2017:
Enteric disorders are one of the most important groups of diseases which affect poultry production world-wide and they are continuing to cause high economic losses due to increased mortality rates, decreased we...