Early development of the digestive tract is crucial for achieving maximal growth and development of chickens. This study examined the effects of in ovo (IO) feeding of 0.70 mL of dextrose (10.00% and 20.00%) or amino acids solutions into the yolk sac at day 14 of incubation on small intestine histomorphometry and histomorphology, intestinal development, hatchability, body weight, and l...

This experiment was conducted to investigate the effect of a Bacillus spp.–based directfed microbial (DFM) on growth performance, apparent total tract digestibility (ATTD), blood profile, intestinal histomorphology, and fecal gas emission in piglets fed corn and soybean meal–based diets. The DFM product was based on 1 strain of Bacillus subtilis and 2 strains of Bacillus amyloliquefaciens and f...

The effects on liver and intestinal histomorphology microbiota in gilthead seabream (Sparus aurata) fed diets that contained poultry by-product meal (PBM) hydrolyzed feather (HFM) as fishmeal replacements were studied. Fish a series of isonitrogenous isoenergetic diets, where protein the control diet (FM diet) was replaced by either PBM or HFM at 25%, 50% 100% without amino acid supplementation...

PURPOSE To assess ischemic preconditioning (IPC) effects in pulmonary lesion in intestinal and hepatic ischemia-reperfusion (IR) injury models using diabetic rats. METHODS Diabetes (DM) was induced in 28 male Wistar rats by alloxan (42 mg/kg, IV). After 28 days, severe DM rats were submitted to intestinal or hepatic IR injury with or without IPC. Intestinal IR (30 min of mesenteric artery occ...

The present study evaluated the effects of feeding frequency (FF) and dietary protein/carbohydrate (P/CH) ratios on intestinal histomorphology, microbiota profile, digestive oxidative stress-related enzyme activities gilthead seabream (Sparus aurata). To this purpose, two practical diets were formulated: one with 50% P 10% CH (P50/CH10) other 40% 20% (P40/CH20). Triplicate groups fish <math xml...

This study investigated the effects of dietary lactulose supplementation on broiler growth performance, intestinal histomorphology, cecal microflora, and cecal short-chain fatty acid (SCFA) concentrations. A total of 245 one-day-old male broiler chickens were randomly assigned to 5 different treatments, with 7 replicates including 7 birds each. The birds received the same basal diet based on co...

Identifying suitable substitutes for fishmeal has been one of the important issues aquaculture industry decades. Recently, black soldier fly, Hermetia illucens L (HI) become most promising alternative protein in aqua-diets. This study investigated effects substitution with fresh HI larvae on growth, serum and liver parameters, intestinal enzyme activity, histomorphology innate resistance to Aer...