Intestinal Health Technical Articles
Article published the February 11, 2020:
INTRODUCTION
Production of broilers with high growth rate and feed efficiency through impressive genetic improvement is often directly linked with digestive problems, such as passage of undigested feed (or) fe...
Article published the February 10, 2020:
Introduction
Body weight gains of broiler chickens have been improved substantially during the last decades. Consequently, modern broiler chicks are able to increase their weight approximately 50 fold within 4...
Article published the January 7, 2020:
The importance of the microbiota in the gastrointestinal tract of animals is recognized to have an important role in host health and productivity. In this study, we sought to assess and characterize the microbi...
Article published the January 7, 2020:
Introduction:
Poultry meat industry has been more dynamic than egg industry over these years.
Broiler breeder companies are making every effort to produce progeny that produces higher (breast) meat yiel...
Article published the December 20, 2019:
Article published the December 17, 2019:
Heat stress (HS) is devastating to poultry production sustainability from its adverse effects on bird welfare, health, growth, and mortality. Although modern broilers have greater gut mass and higher energy use...
Article published the November 5, 2019:
Over the past decades, genetic improvements have stimulated broiler production resulting in birds weighing ± 3kg in 42 d. To reach this genetic potential, the absorption and digestion of nutrients and ac...
Article published the September 17, 2019:
Pore-forming toxins (PFTs) are a diverse group of cytolytic proteins that are produced by many different organisms (1, 2). Bacterial PFTs are important virulence factors (1) and in general are produced as solub...
Article published the September 2, 2019:
Background
Clostridium perfringens is a bacterial pathogen that causes a wide variety of diseases ranging from gas gangrene and food poisoning in humans to necrotic enteritis in chickens [1]. Aside from host f...
Article published the August 26, 2019:
INTRODUCTION
The intestinal microbiome shapes the gut immune system. In rodents, for example, intestinal colonization by Bifidobacterium infantis or Faecalibacterium prausnitzii stimulates the development of F...