Overweight and obesity induce serious health problems that exert negative effects on dog's welfare. Body condition score (BCS) is a common method to evaluate the body fat mass in animals. By palpating observing fats under skin it possible predict animal's accumulation condition. BCS also useful tool estimate composition dogs. However, can be subjective when was performed by non-professionals like pet's owners. To develop avoid misevaluation of twenty-four Beagles were enrolled evaluation. In...

Intestinal barrier is the first line of defense inside body and comprises intercellular tight junction (TJ) proteins that regulate paracellular permeability. Deoxynivalenol (DON), a fungal metabolite often found in contaminated food domestic animals, known to impair intestinal function may be involved inflammation. Unlike humans mice, importance Toll-like receptor (TLR) 2 expressed porcine epithelial cells largely unclear. Therefore, aim present study was investigate whether TLR2 stimulation...

The present study was conducted to evaluate the effects of black soldier fly larvae oil (BSFLO) from (BSFL) as a partial or total replacement soybean (SBO) on growth performance, fatty acid (FA) profile, and meat quality broiler chickens 1 5 wk age. A 210 male (Ross 308) at one-day age were randomly allotted 3 dietary treatments (10 replicates 7 birds/group): basal control diet (CON), in which SBO replaced by 50% (50 BSFLO) 100% (100 BSFLO. physical measurements chemical traits leg meat,...

Microorganism residing in the gut has been known to have important roles animal body. Microbes and host microenvironment are highly related with host's health including energy metabolism immune system. Moreover, it reported that microbiome is correlated diseases like obesity human dogs. There many studies identify characterize microbes their genes However, there was little information of companion animals. Here, we investigated microbiota communities feaces from twenty - four Beagles (aged 2...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the meat metabolite profiles related differences in beef quality attributes (i.e., high-marbled and low-marbled groups) using nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy. different marbling scores showed significant water content fat content. High-marbled had mainly higher taste compounds than meat. Metabolite analysis between two groups based on partial least square discriminant (PLS-DA). Metabolites identified by PLS-DA, such as...

Objective: The objective of this study was to determine whether dietary black soldier fly (Hermetia illucens, HI) larvae oil (HILO) could serve as an alternative fat source soybean (SBO) in laying hen diets.Methods: We randomly assigned 25-week-old Hy-line Brown hens (n = 144) receive 6 hens/group; eight replicates) a control or experimental diet which SBO replaced with 50% (50HILO) 100% HILO (100HILO).Results: Dietary did not negatively affect body weight productive performance during the...

Heat stress negatively affects cattle productivity by reducing feed intake. In the present study, we assessed if rumen microbiome composition of Hanwoo steers was altered exposure to heat stress. Rumen samples were collected from four that individually housed in climate-controlled chambers with 60% humidity and environmental temperatures of: 1) 15°C (0-day group), 2) 35°C for 3 days (3-day 3) 6 (6-day group). The total community DNA extracted, 997,843 bacterial 1,508,770 archaeal sequences...

Limited information is available regarding the use of microwave-dried Hermetia illucens larvae meal (HILM) as a dietary protein source for broiler diets. Therefore, we investigated effects HILM on carcass traits, meat quality, fatty acid (FA) profiles abdominal fat and meat, heavy metal residues in broilers. A total 126 male broilers were randomly assigned to three treatment groups (6 replicates 7 birds/pen): control diet two experimental diets which soybean was replaced with 25 or 50% HILM....

Background Curcumin is a promising candidate for natural medicinal agent to treat chronic inflammatory diseases. Although CD4+ T cells have been implicated in the pathogenesis of inflammation, whether curcumin directly regulates has not definitively established. Here, we showed curcumin-mediated regulation CD2/CD3/CD28-initiated cell activation vitro. Methodology/Principal Findings Primary human were stimulated with anti-CD2/CD3/CD28 antibody-coated beads as an vitro surrogate system antigen...

Insects are a potential source of proteins and fats which can be incorporated into diets broiler chickens. Accordingly, black soldier fly larvae oil (BSFLO) needs to tested as an appropriate fat produce healthy chickens for consumers. Therefore, the objective present study was evaluate effects replacement soybean (SBO) with BSFLO in on intestinal health blood profiles. A total 210 one-day-old male broilers were randomly allocated three dietary treatments (10 replicates seven birds per...

An experiment was conducted to measure DE and ME in copra (Cocos nucifera) meal (CM), palm kernel (PKM), cassava (Manihot esculenta) root (CR) growing pigs. Eight boars with an initial BW of 67.3 ± 5.8 kg were individually housed metabolism crates that equipped a feeder nipple drinker. A replicated 4 × Latin square design used dietary treatments, periods, 8 animals. basal diet mainly contained corn (Zea mays) soybean (Glycine max) meal. Three additional diets formulated contain 30% CM, PKM,...

Heat stress (HS) negatively impacts pig production and swine health. Therefore, to understand the genetic metabolic responses of pigs HS, we used RNA-Seq high resolution magic angle spinning (HR-MAS) NMR analyses compare transcriptomes metabolomes Duroc (n = 6, 3 barrows gilts) exposed heat (33 °C 60% RH) with a control group (25 RH). HS resulted in differential expression 552 (236 up, 316 down) 879 (540 339 genes significant enrichment 30 31 plasma metabolites female male pigs,...

Black soldier fly (Hermetia illucens) larvae meal (HILM) is a promising alternative to soybean (SBM). However, little information available on the effect of microwave-dried HILM as dietary protein source in diets laying hens. We studied inclusion level productive performance, cecal volatile fatty acid profile, egg quality, overall and heavy metal residues A total 144 hens (25-week-old) were randomly assigned three groups (eight replicates six birds/cage): control diet, two experimental which...

The aim of the present study was to investigate effect Eucommia ulmoides leaf (EUL) supplementation on growth performance, blood and meat quality parameters in growing finishing pigs. Ninety gilts (L x LW D, 20 kg initialBW) were housed 10 per pen a front-open building with three replicate pens treatment. Experimental treatment started from beginning stage (20 +/- 3 kg) by supplementing EUL at 0(C), 3(T1) 5% (T2) diet. Pigs slaughtered electrical stunning 105 live weight. Average daily feed...

Objective: Deoxynivalenol (DON) and zearalenone (ZEN) are mycotoxins that frequently contaminate maize grain cereals, imposing risks to the health of both humans animals leading economic losses. The gut microbiome has been shown help combat effects such toxins, with certain microorganisms reported contribute significantly detoxification process.Methods: We examined cecum contents three different dietary groups pigs (control, as well diets contaminated 8 mg DON/kg feed or 0.8 ZEN/kg feed)....

The objective of the present study was to investigate effect fermented apple diet (FAD) supplementation on growth performance and meat quality in finishing Berkshires. FAD made from dropped mixed with rice bran barley bran. Until 81 +/- 1 kg live weight at 133 days, animals were fed a growing diet, after which experimental samples fixed 0, 2, 4 6% as C, T1, T2 T3 diets. Growth performance, ADG, ADFI feed efficiency improved T1 than other groups. In carcass parameters, higher (P < 0.05)...

Youl-Chang Baek, Minseok Kim, Jin-Young Jeong, Young-Kyoon Oh, Sung-Dae Lee, Yoo-Kyung Sang-Yun Ji and Hyuck Choi. Journal of Animal Reproduction Biotechnology 2019;34:173-82. https://doi.org/10.12750/JARB.34.3.173

The current experiment was conducted to determine the toxic level of dietary mercury (Hg) and predict Hg intake tissue concentrations in broiler chickens from feather concentrations. A total 800 3-d-old (400 male 400 female birds) were allotted one 80 battery cages 2 × 5 factorial arrangements sex diets with 0, 50, 100, 250, or 500 mg/kg. chloride used increase diets. Experiment lasted for 32 d. There no interactions between treatments all measurements. greater than 250 mg/kg had negative...

The objective was to measure energy concentrations and standardized total tract digestibility (STTD) of phosphorus (P) in hatchery byproducts. In Experiment 1, 20 nursery barrows were used A basal diet based on corn dried whey four additional diets containing 25% infertile eggs, unhatched culled chicks, or a mixture the three byproducts prepared. 2, STTD P measured using barrows. Four same 1 as sole source prepared, P-free prepared endogenous losses P. marker-to-marker method employed for...

Department of Applied Chemistry, Dongduk Women’s University, Seoul 136-714, KoreaReceived July 10, 2012, Accepted August 6, 2012Key Words : Monoamine oxidase A, in silico docking, BenzoflavanoneAlthough more than 20,000 papers concerning mono-amine (MAO) have been reported PubMed sincethe 1950s, over 300 are still being published everyyear on this topic. This indicates the importance MAO,which was discovered by Mary Hare-Bernheim 1928.