A5059344633- Meat and Animal Product Quality
- Ruminant Nutrition and Digestive Physiology
- Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock
- Milk Quality and Mastitis in Dairy Cows
- Animal Nutrition and Physiology
- Aquaculture disease management and microbiota
- Calpain Protease Function and Regulation
- Myxozoan Parasites in Aquatic Species
- Heat shock proteins research
- Isotope Analysis in Ecology
- Sensory Analysis and Statistical Methods
- Effects of Environmental Stressors on Livestock
- Horticultural and Viticultural Research
- Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals
- Reproductive Physiology in Livestock
- Invertebrate Immune Response Mechanisms
- Mycobacterium research and diagnosis
- Mycotoxins in Agriculture and Food
- Probiotics and Fermented Foods
- Lipid metabolism and biosynthesis
- Livestock Management and Performance Improvement
- Garlic and Onion Studies
- Mollusks and Parasites Studies
- Rangeland and Wildlife Management
- Connexins and lens biology
University of Udine
2015-2024
Fondazione Edmund Mach
2021
Goat meat is considered healthy because of its low fat content, but it often rather tough. Tenderness the most important attribute quality during consumption and there scarce information about expression genes involved in tenderization process goats. The aim this trial was to assess certain traits expression, at messenger RNA (mRNA) protein levels, specific longissimus lumborum (LL) young male goats (Capra hircus) different ages. Samples LL were collected slaughter from 32 Alpine that...
Cull dairy cows are important contributors to total beef production in the USA and Europe. Hempseed cake is a by-product of oil it rich unsaturated fatty acids (FA). This study aimed investigate effect adding hempseed diet Italian Simmental (IS) cull on performances meat quality. Twenty-six were divided into three dietary groups: hay-based, corn silage-based pasture-based diets. Within each group, animals equally two treatments according protein source concentrate: (HEMP) or soybeans meal...
Italian rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) farms are periodically affected by outbreaks of lactococcosis caused Lactococcus garvieae, and rearing basins reveal simultaneously asymptomatic symptomatic fish. The present study, as part an "in field" sanitary survey, was designed to describe the expression immune related genes in infected versus healthy fish, well explore a Near Infrared Spectroscopy (NIR) novel approach discriminate between them. Measurements/sampling were performed farm...
The aim of this study was to assess the effect heat stress on dairy cow performance and expression selected genes involved in milk protein metabolism. Eight Italian Holstein Friesian cows were kept under thermoneutral conditions (temperature–humidity index (THI) < 72, CON) for 8 days mild (72 THI 78, HS) an additional days. rectal temperature, feed intake, yield recorded during last 3 CON HS periods. During same time period, samples collected composition Gene analyses performed somatic...
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The objective of this trial was to determine the effect breed and long-term dietary linseed addition on composition fatty acids expression some genes involved in lipid metabolism within subcutaneous (s.c.) adipose tissue young bulls. Italian Simmental Holstein bulls (n=16/breed) were fed a corn silage-grass hay diet with or without 8% (DM basis) whole ground linseed. Inclusion linseed, rich α-linoleic acid (C18:3n-3), increased (P<0.05) proportions linolelaidic (C18:2n-6trans), γ-linolenic...
Red mark syndrome (RMS) is a widespread skin disorder of rainbow trout in freshwater aquaculture, believed to be caused by Midichloria-like organism (MLO). Here, we aimed study the pathologic mechanisms at origin RMS analyzing field samples from recent outbreak through gene expression, MLO PCR, quantitative and histopathological scoring system proposed for lesions. Statistical analyses included One-Way Analysis Variance (ANOVA) with Dunnett's multiple comparisons test assess differences...
Twenty-eight Brown cows were maintained on a mountain pasture for period of 40 days and assigned to 4 groups following factorial design 2 stocking density (0·7 1·4 cows/ha)×2 supplement levels (2·4 4·8 kg organic matter (OM)/d). Herbage intake, animal body condition score (BCS), milk yield, chemical coagulation properties, cheese composition, rheology sensory characteristics measured. The average herbage intake was 12·2 OM/d, with significant effect related (low, 13·1 v . high, 11·4 OM/d)....
Abstract The activities of calpain and caspase systems during ageing in Longissimus lumborum (LL) Infraspinatus (IS) muscles Italian Simmental young bulls ( Bos taurus ) were assessed. Samples from 10 animals collected within 20 min exsanguination (T0), after 48 h (T1) 7 days (T2) post mortem . Calpain activity evaluated based on the formation αII spectrin cleavage products 145 kDa (SBDP145) 120 (SBDP120), respectively. Caspase was also assessed by presence poly (adenosine...
Red mark syndrome is a non-lethal skin disease, reported to affect farmed rainbow trout over 50 g worldwide (Metselaar et al., 2022). As by the results of 25th Annual Workshop European Reference Laboratories for Fish Diseases (DTU-AQUA, Denmark), RMS remains date major concern in farming. This has been studied extensively both field and experimental cases, diagnostic features have established (Galeotti, Sarli, 2021; Jorgensen 2019; Oidtmann 2013; Verner-Jeffreys 2008). Slovenia...
This paper aims to study the effect of dietary treatments on mRNA expression urea transporter B (UT-B) and some aquaporins (AQP) in rumen epithelium Italian Simmental young bulls. Eighty animals allocated 16 pens were fed from about 500 650 kg body weight with four experimental diets, which resulted combination two crude protein levels (125 110 g/kg dry matter, diets M L, respectively) nitrogen sources (soybean meal (SBM) or SBM partly replaced by an isonitrogenous mixture corn urea; −U +U,...
Abstract The early post mortem expression of eight genes potentially involved in meat ageing process and the tenderness two Italian Simmental young bulls' ( B os taurus ) skeletal muscles differing their contractile type were evaluated. Samples L ongissimus lumborum LL I nfraspinatus IS collected from 17 bulls. messenger RNA mRNA abundances calpain‐1, calpain‐2, calpastatin, caspase 3, 9, heat shock p r otein 27 (Hsp27), H sp40 sp70 detected by quantitative PCR . myosin heavy chain‐slow...
The variability in the characteristics of fresh meat and thighs relationship with genetic type was studied on 22 lots heavy pigs, comprising 615 female castrated males, randomly chosen during slaughtering groups 20 to 30 animals per lot. Four different types reared for production San Daniele dry-cured ham PDO were considered: two traditionals (Large White or Duroc x (Landrace Large White) industrial hybrids (GOLAND DANBRED). Fresh samples from longissimus dorsi muscle collected perform...
An experiment was carried out on 32 dairy cows (average yield 21.9 ± 2.7 kg/d) grazing summer alpine pasture, in order to examine the effect of two types supplement - Starchy (42% cereal) and Fibrous (41% beet pulp) both provided at different levels Low (1 kg per 5.0 energy corrected milk (ECM)) High 3.3 ECM) herbage intake, quality. The distributed twice a day, during milking, constant level throughout (July August), as calculated according daily one-week preliminary period. Meteorological...
The aim of this study was to characterize from the genetic point view eight alpine sheep breeds reared in Italy (Bergamasca, Biellese, Schwarzbraunes Bergschaf and Tiroler Bergschaf), Germany (Brillenschaf Weisses Bergschaf) Slovenia (Bovška Jezerzko-Solčavska) through use microsatellite molecular markers. Allelic richness rather high each breed highlighting a considerable diversity. However, evidenced significant departure Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium all analyzed caused by heterozygote...