Animal Nutrition,Growth and Lactation(grant no.2015–67015-23245/project accession no.1005855);Animal Health and Production and Animal Products(grant no.2023–67015-39663/1030033)from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture;North Carolina Agricultural Research Hatch projects 1016618 and 02780.
Background Energy deficiency is a leading cause of the high pre-weaning mortality of neonatal piglets in the swine industry.Thus,optimal energy metabolism is of crucial importance for improving the survivability of ne...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.31802101);the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (No.KJQN201935)。
Background Intrauterine growth restriction(IUGR)can cause lipid disorders in infants and have long-term adverse effects on their growth and development.Clostridium butyricum(C.butyricum),a kind of emerging probiotics,...
Background:Commercial pre-weaning diets are formulated to be highly digestible and nutrient-dense and contain low levels of dietary fibre.In contrast,pigs in a natural setting are manipulating fibre-rich plant materia...
supported by the National Key R&D Program of China2017YFD0500505;the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities,China(KYZ201722)
Background: Most research on galacto-oligosaccharides(GOS) has mainly focused on their prebiotic effects on the hindgut,but their beneficial effects on the small intestine(SI) have received little attention.Since jeju...
supported by a grant from the government agency for Innovation by Science and Technology(IWT-LO 100856)
Background: In this study the physiological implications of artificial rearing were investigated. Low(LBW) and normal birth weight(NBW) piglets were compared as they might react differently to stressors caused by...
Financial support by Australian Cooperative Research Centre for High Integrity Australian Pork
Background: In this experiment, intermittent suckling(IS) with or without the co-mingling(Co M) of piglets was studied as a method to stimulate solid feed intake and reduce post-weaning stress.Methods: Three wea...
funded by the National Key Basic Research Program of China(2013CB127302);National Natural Science Foundation of China(31330075,31372326,31301988,31301989);the State Key Laboratory of Animal Nutrition(2004DA125184F1401);the Spark Program of Jiangxi Province(20142BBF061051);Changsha Lvye Biotechnology Limited Company Academician Expert Workstation;Guangdong Wangda Group Academician Workstation for Clean Feed Technology Research and Development in Swine;Guangdong Hinapharm Group Academician Workstation for Biological Feed and Feed Additives and Animal Intestinal Health
Background: The intestinal epithelium is an important barrier that depends on a complex mixture of proteins and these proteins comprise different intercellular junctions. The purpose of this study was to investigate ...