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本试验旨在探讨饲粮中添加酵母壁多糖对断奶仔猪外周血免疫和肠道免疫的影响。采用单因素试验设计方法,选取21日龄遗传胎次、体重接近的断奶仔猪180头,随机分为4个组,每组5个重复,每个重复9头猪。4组分别饲喂饲粮中添加0(对照组)、0.15%、0.30%和0.45%酵母壁多糖的试验饲粮。试验期21 d。结果表明:1)与对照组相比,饲粮中添加0.15%、0.30%和0.45%酵母壁多糖显著提高了断奶仔猪血清免疫球蛋白A(IgA)含量(P0.05),饲粮中添加0.30%和0.45%酵母壁多糖显著提高了断奶仔猪血清免疫球蛋白G(IgG)含量(P0.05)。2)与对照组相比,饲粮中添加0.15%、0.30%和0.45%酵母壁多糖显著降低了断奶仔猪血清干扰素-γ(IFN-γ)含量(P0.05),饲粮中添加0.30%酵母壁多糖显著提高了断奶仔猪血清白细胞介素-10(IL-10)的含量(P0.05)。饲粮中添加酵母壁多糖对断奶仔猪血清白细胞介素-2(IL-2)、白细胞介素-6(IL-6)和肿瘤坏死因子-α(TNF-α)含量均无显著影响(P0.05)。3)与对照组相比,饲粮中添加0.30%和0.45%酵母壁多糖显著提高了断奶仔猪回肠CD4~+淋巴细胞含量(P0.05),饲粮中添加酵母壁多糖能一定程度提高断奶仔猪回肠CD8~+和CD20~+淋巴细胞含量,但差异不显著(P0.05)。由此可知,酵母壁多糖能一定程度提高断奶仔猪外周血免疫和肠道免疫,缓解断奶应激。  相似文献   

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本研究旨在探讨饲粮中添加酵母壁多糖对断奶仔猪生长性能和小肠黏膜形态结构的影响。试验采用单因素试验设计方法,选取180头遗传背景一致、健康状况良好、胎次和体重接近的21日龄断奶仔猪,随机分为4个组,每组5个重复,每个重复9头猪。4个组分别饲喂对照饲粮、0.15%酵母壁多糖饲粮、0.30%酵母壁多糖饲粮和0.45%酵母壁多糖饲粮。试验期21 d。结果表明:1)与对照组相比,饲粮中添加酵母壁多糖能够显著提高断奶仔猪平均日增重和平均日采食量(P0.05);酵母壁多糖有降低断奶仔猪腹泻率和料重比的趋势,但差异不显著(P0.05)。2)与对照组相比,饲粮中添加酵母壁多糖能够显著提高断奶仔猪空肠绒毛高度/隐窝深度值(P0.05),添加0.45%酵母壁多糖能够显著提高断奶仔猪空肠绒毛高度和十二指肠绒毛高度/隐窝深度值(P0.05)。由此可知,酵母壁多糖可提高断奶仔猪的生长性能,并改善小肠黏膜形态结构;综合生长性能、小肠黏膜形态及经济成本等指标,其在仔猪饲粮中的适宜添加量为0.30%。  相似文献   

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The effect of feeding live Escherichia coli bacteria to sows on the lymphocyte populations in colostrum and milk was studied by in ovo translation of the mRNA of these cells (Kortbeek-Jacobs and van der Donk, 1978). Four E. coli strains were tested: one wild type K88 producing strain, two conjugated K12 strains producing K88 antigen and one wild type K12 strain. Only after feeding the wild type K88 bacteria, colostral lymphocytes contained mRNA coding for anti-K88 antibodies, predominantly of the IgA and IgM isotypes. Milk lymphocytes of the sows receiving one of the other strains were capable of producing more anti-K88 antibodies than the sows that were fed the wild type K88 strain. Antibodies were predominantly of the IgM class. The reactivity of the milk lymphocytes is ascribed to the strain with which the piglets were challenged. The results support the phenomenon of sensitized gut lymphocytes that home to the mammary gland.  相似文献   

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本研究旨在探讨饲粮中添加酵母壁多糖对断奶仔猪肠道挥发性脂肪酸和微生物菌群的影响。试验采用单因素试验设计方法,选取180头遗传背景一致、健康状况良好、胎次和体重接近的21日龄断奶仔猪,随机分为4个组,每组5个重复,每个重复9头猪。4个组试验猪分别饲喂对照饲粮(未添加酵母壁多糖)、0.15%酵母壁多糖饲粮、0.30%酵母壁多糖饲粮和0.45%酵母壁多糖饲粮。试验期21 d。结果表明:1)与对照组相比,饲粮中添加0.15%、0.30%和0.45%酵母壁多糖显著提高了仔猪结肠乙酸的含量(P0.05);其中,0.30%和0.45%酵母壁多糖还显著提高了结肠丙酸、丁酸以及总挥发性脂肪酸的含量(P0.05),且二者之间差异不显著(P0.05)。2)与对照组相比,饲粮中添加0.15%、0.30%和0.45%酵母壁多糖显著降低了盲肠沙门氏菌和大肠杆菌数量(P0.05),且0.30%和0.45%酵母壁多糖组之间差异不显著(P0.05)。由此可知,酵母壁多糖可提高仔猪肠道挥发性脂肪酸含量,并改善肠道微生物菌群结构,根据回归方程预测,酵母壁多糖在仔猪饲粮中的适宜添加水平为0.31%~0.40%。  相似文献   

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活性酵母对脂多糖应激黄羽肉鸡肠道健康的影响   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  
本试验旨在研究活性酵母对脂多糖(LPS)应激黄羽肉鸡肠道健康的影响。选取480羽1日龄黄羽肉公鸡,随机分成6个组,分别为抗生素组(基础饲粮+0.025‰抗生素)、抗生素+LPS组(基础饲粮+0.025‰抗生素,注射LPS)、0.05%活性酵母组(基础饲粮+0.05%活性酵母)、0.05%活性酵母+LPS组(基础饲粮+0.05%活性酵母,注射LPS)、0.50%活性酵母组(基础饲粮+0.50%活性酵母)和0.50%活性酵母+LPS组(基础饲粮+0.50%活性酵母,注射LPS),每组8个重复,每个重复10只鸡。试验期56 d。抗生素+LPS组、0.05%活性酵母+LPS组和0.50%活性酵母+LPS组的试验鸡于21、23、25和27日龄每只鸡肌肉注射2 mL 0.2 mg/mL LPS,其余试验鸡肌肉注射等量生理盐水。于21和27日龄注射LPS或生理盐水后2、4、6、8、10、12和24 h测量试验鸡的直肠温度,并检测27和56日龄试验鸡的肠道细胞凋亡指数以及27、35和56日龄试验鸡的肠道食糜微生物数量和肠道形态结构。结果表明:1)与注射生理盐水相比,LPS刺激显著提高了21日龄注射后2 h和27日龄注射后2和4 h黄羽肉鸡的直肠温度(P0.05),显著降低了21日龄注射后12 h和27日龄注射后8 h黄羽肉鸡的直肠温度(P0.05);饲粮中添加活性酵母对黄羽肉鸡的直肠温度无显著影响(P0.05);饲粮中添加活性酵母与肌肉注射LPS对黄羽肉鸡的直肠温度无显著交互作用(P0.05)。2)与注射生理盐水相比,LPS应激显著提高了27日龄黄羽肉鸡的十二指肠和回肠细胞凋亡指数(P0.05);饲粮中添加活性酵母对黄羽肉鸡的肠道细胞凋亡指数无显著影响(P0.05);饲粮中添加活性酵母与肌肉注射LPS对黄羽肉鸡的肠道细胞凋亡指数无显著交互作用(P0.05)。3)与抗生素相比,饲粮中添加0.05%和0.50%的活性酵母显著提高了27、35和56日龄黄羽肉鸡回肠食糜酵母菌数量(P0.05);与注射生理盐水相比,LPS应激对黄羽肉鸡回肠和盲肠食糜微生物数量无显著影响(P0.05);饲粮中添加活性酵母与肌肉注射LPS对黄羽肉鸡肠道食糜微生物数量无显著交互作用(P0.05)。4)与抗生素相比,饲粮中添加0.50%活性酵母显著提高了35日龄黄羽肉鸡的空肠绒毛高度(P0.05);与注射生理盐水相比,LPS应激显著提高了56日龄黄羽肉鸡的十二指肠隐窝深度(P0.05);饲粮中添加活性酵母与肌肉注射LPS对黄羽肉鸡的肠道形态结构无显著交互作用(P0.05)。综上所述,LPS能成功诱导黄羽肉鸡的免疫应激反应,饲粮中添加活性酵母能够提高黄羽肉鸡肠道绒毛高度和食糜中酵母菌数量,改善肠道黏膜及菌群结构,但肌肉注射LPS与饲粮中添加活性酵母无显著交互作用。  相似文献   

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The possible differences in the immunostimulant effects between whole wild Saccharomyces cerevisiae and a mutant strain (fks-1) administered in the diet to gilthead seabream (Sparus aurata L.) were studied. Fish were fed diets containing 0 (control) or 10 g whole wild yeast or fks-1 strain per kilogram feed for 2, 4 or 6 weeks. After each sampling, the innate humoral (complement, lysozyme and peroxidases) and cellular (intracellular peroxidases, phagocytosis, respiratory burst activity and cytotoxicity) responses were determined. Among the humoral responses, serum peroxidases and complement activity were significantly decreased after 6 weeks of feeding with the fks-1 strain-supplemented diet, while lysozyme activity increased after 2 and 4 weeks of feeding the fks-1 strain. Of the cellular responses studied, phagocytosis was increased to a significant degree at all the assayed times but only by the fks-1 strain-supplemented diet, while respiratory burst activity (after 4 weeks) and natural cytotoxicity (after 4 and 6 weeks) increased with either yeast strain. The intracellular peroxidase content was not affected by the dietary supplementation of either yeast strain. These results are discussed with a view to assessing the possible use of wild and/or mutant yeast strains for immunostimulant purposes in aquaculture.  相似文献   

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Porcine carcasses contaminated with Salmonella typhimurium pose significant public health problems. Prolonged faecal shedding of Salmonella in pigs contributes to the contamination level of carcasses. Although the mechanism of prolonged faecal shedding is not yet clarified, the CS54 Island, and more specifically the shdA gene encoding a fibronectin binding autotransporter protein, was identified as an important locus for intestinal colonization and persistence of Salmonella typhimurium in mice. The aim of this study was to assess the contribution of ShdA in faecal shedding of Salmonella typhimurium in pigs. Pigs were orally inoculated with a Salmonella typhimurium wild type field strain or its isogenic shdA mutant strain. For the first few days after inoculation, the shdA mutant strain was excreted more, the diarrhoea was more pronounced and higher numbers of internal organs were infected. No effect on long-term shedding was found. In a porcine ileal loop model, the wild type strain and shdA mutant strain did not show any differences in the induction of neutrophil influx into the intestinal wall and lumen. In conclusion, we have shown that a Salmonella typhimurium deletion mutant in shdA is more virulent during the first days after inoculation and is not significantly impaired in persistence or prolonged shedding in pigs.  相似文献   

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ABSTRACT

1. The aim of this study was to examine the effect of yeast cell wall (YCW) on performance and physiological responses of broiler chickens under subclinical necrotic enteritis challenge.

2. Six treatments in a 2 × 3 factorial arrangement (non-challenged or challenged plus no supplement, YCW or antibiotics (AB)) was used. Each treatment was replicated eight times with 12 birds per replicate. The treatments included: (1) Positive control (PC; no additive, not challenged); (2) Negative control (NC; no additive, with challenge); (3) YCWN = yeast cell wall (2.0 g/kg diet, not challenged; (4) YCWC = yeast cell wall (2.0 g/kg diet, challenged); (5) ABN = zinc bacitracin 50 ppm + Salinomycin 60 ppm, not challenged); (6) ABC = zinc bacitracin 50 ppm + Salinomycin 60 ppm, challenged).

3. Eimeria challenge at 9 d of age did not affect feed intake (FI), body weight gain (BWG), FCR or liveability at 10 d. The BWG and FCR at 10 d were greater (P < 0.05) in birds fed YCW or AB (AB) diets relative to the PC or NC groups. On 24 and 35 d, FI, BWG, FCR and flock uniformity (28 d) were greater (P < 0.05) in the challenged groups fed YCW or AB diets compared to NC group.

4. Supplementation with YCW ameliorated the negative effects of NE on liver, spleen and bursa weight of birds.

5. Necrotic enteritis challenge decreased (P < 0.05) caecal Lactobacillus and Bifidobacterium spp. counts, and increased ileum lesion score and caecal Clostridium perfirngens counts. This was reversed by the addition of either YCW or AB.

6. Supplementation with YCW and AB resulted to a greater (P < 0.05) dressing percentage and meat yield (35 d).

7. The results indicated that YCW plays a vital role in improving the physiological response and performance of broiler chickens under subclinical necrotic enteritis challenge.  相似文献   

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复合酵母培养物对奶牛生产性能的影响   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  
通过在日粮中添加复合酵母培养物,研究其对荷斯坦牛生产性能的影响。结果表明,添加复合酵母培养物的试验组奶牛产奶量显著高于对照组(P<0.05),乳脂率也略有提高,但乳蛋白率和乳糖率与对照组相比差异不显著。  相似文献   

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猪链球菌2型srtA基因缺失菌株的构建及生物学特性   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  
扩增了srtA基因的上、下游同源臂P1和P2及其全长序列,利用温度敏感型"自杀性"质粒pSET4s构建了重组质粒pSET4s-P1-P2,并将该质粒电转化入野生菌株SS2(SC21)中,通过抗生素和温度双重筛选,得到srtA基因缺失菌株,命名SC211.同时,将srtA基因定向插入穿梭质粒pAT18,构建穿梭质粒pAT18-srtA,并将该质粒电转入srtA基因缺失菌株SC211中,通过抗生素筛选,得到质粒介导的srtA基因互补菌株SC212.通过PCR、South-ern blotting等对缺失突变菌株和互补菌株进行了鉴定.对基因缺失突变菌株和回复菌株传代培养遗传稳定性试验结果显示,缺失突变菌株和互补菌株能够稳定遗传.比较了基因缺失突变菌株、互补菌株及野生菌株的生长特性、溶血活性、细胞粘附特性,结果表明,3个菌株的生长速度、溶血活性没有明显差异.基因缺失后SS2对Hep2细胞的粘附能力明显下降,只有野毒菌株的49%,互补菌株粘附能力几乎达到野毒菌株的水平,是野毒菌株的89%.CD1小鼠毒力试验结果显示,srtA基因缺失株SC211的LD_(50)(4.93×10~7)约为野毒菌株SC21的LD_(50)(8.21×10~6)的6倍,质粒介导的互补菌株SC212的LD_(50)(1.43×10~7)是野生菌株SC21的1.7倍,接近野毒菌株的水平,说明srtA基因缺失后SS2毒力显著下降.  相似文献   

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Linseed as a feed ingredient contains a number of constituents, such as mucilage, gel forming polysaccharides, structural carbohydrates and ω-3 fatty acids, which could have functional properties in relation to maintaining and supporting gastro-intestinal health in post weaning piglets. Intestinal gene expression was studied in weanling piglets fed diets containing either or not linseed or linseed expeller meal. Piglets were either or not orally challenged with an enterotoxigenic strain of E. coli K88. Pairwise comparisons identified several mRNAs expressed significantly different, in particular between treatments C− (control, not challenged) and LS− (linseed, not challenged) and LS+ (linseed, challenged) and LSM+ (linseed expeller meal, challenged). The intestinal micro-array technique is a promising tool to study the relationship between nutrition and feeding and gut tissue responses under defined conditions.  相似文献   

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Young willow ptarmigan chicks were fed an artificial chick diet (ACD), and different supplements. One group got ascorbic acid supplements, another neomycin and Oxytetracyclin in the water, and a third was given ascorbic acid and sprouts of Vaccinium myrtillus. Chicks that were fed ACD only, showed low weight gain and high mortality rate. The numbers of bacteria in the gut were high and the incidence of villous epithelium erosion and bacteria colonizing the gut epithelium were high.Admixture of ascorbic acid to the diet improved the viability of the chicks and reduced the number of coliforms in the gut.Antibiotics in the water reduced the number of C. perfringens, enterococci and coliforms in the gut, and improved the gut epithelium conditions.Combined supplements of ascorbic acid and Vaccinium myrtillus resulted in strongly viable chicks with healthy gut epithelium. C. perfringens was not demonstrated in the gut, and the numbers of enterococci and coliforms were low.  相似文献   

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This experiment was designed to determine whether a Bordetella bronchiseptica mutant that does not produce dermonecrotic toxin (DNT) is still capable of predisposing pigs to infection with toxigenic Pasteurella multocida. Three groups of pigs were initially inoculated intranasally with a wild type B. bronchiseptica that produces DNT, an isogenic mutant of B. bronchiseptica that does not produce DNT, or PBS. All pigs were then challenged intranasally with a toxigenic strain of P. multocida 4 days later. P. multocida was recovered infrequently and in low numbers from pigs initially inoculated with PBS, and no turbinate atrophy was present in these pigs. P. multocida was isolated in similar numbers from the pigs initially inoculated with either the wild type or the DNT mutant of B. bronchiseptica, and turbinate atrophy of a similar magnitude was also seen in pigs from both of these groups. Thus, although the DNT has been shown to be responsible for much of the pathology seen during infection with B. bronchiseptica by itself, infection with non-DNT-producing strains can still predispose to secondary respiratory infections with P. multocida.  相似文献   

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Chickens were immunized orally with 10(9)cfu of the temperature-sensitive (T(s)) mutant E/1/3 of Salmonella enteritidis at 1, 2, 3 and 7 days of age. The animals were challenged with wild-type strains of Salmonella of different serotypes 7 or 14 days following immunization. Chickens receiving multiple oral doses of the vaccine strain showed no signs of disease. Immunized animals shed the vaccine strain for at least 2 weeks after the last inoculation; on the other hand, colonization by the attenuated mutant of internal organs such as spleen and liver was limited. Early exposure of the immunized animals to the virulent bacteria resulted in a reduced cecal colonization by the pathogen. Visceral invasion by the wild-type strain of S. enteritidis or S. gallinarum was drastically diminished in birds challenged 14 days after immunization. Significant differences in the number of these Salmonella were found in the cecal contents, spleen and liver of immunized birds compared with the control animals. In addition, cecal colonization by the virulent strain was reduced in birds challenged with S. typhimurium. These results demonstrate that immunization of newly hatched chickens with live attenuated T(s) mutant E/1/3 of S. enteritidis is safe and reduces Salmonella shedding.  相似文献   

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The capacity of a TK‐negative (TK ‐) and gI/gE‐negative (gI/gE ‐) pseudorabies virus (PRV) mutant to protect pigs against Aujeszky's disease carried out by experimental infection with a virulent PRV strain, was tested. There were three groups, each of four susceptible pigs which were inoculated twice by two different schedules. Group 1 received the modified virus by the intradermal (first inoculation)‐intramuscular (second inoculation) routes; group 2 was treated by the intranasal (first inoculation)‐intramuscular (second inoculation) routes. The third group was left untreated as the control. All of the pigs were challenged intranasally with a virulent PRV strain and they were subsequently injected with dexamethasone. Two pigs in each group were necropsied on days 5 and 15 after dexamethasone inoculation. The challenge exposure resulted in mild clinical signs, increase in growth and a shorter period of virus shedding in vaccinated pigs, whereas the control group showed severe signs of Aujeszky's disease. No difference in the titre of the virulent virus which was excreted by pigs of all three groups, was observed and all animals seroconverted. Both the mutant strain and the wild‐type virus established a latent infection although only the latter was reactivated and shed. Slight lesions were observed in target tissues of the vaccinated animals and no significant differences were detected between the two inoculation schedules.  相似文献   

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Invasion of Salmonella into intestinal epithelial cells is believed to be essential for the pathogenesis of Salmonella infections. Invasion is mediated by genes located on the Salmonella pathogenicity Island I (SPI-1), which are needed for assembling a type three secretion system, that mediates injection of bacterial proteins into the cytosol of epithelial cells, resulting in cytoskeletal rearrangements and as a consequence invasion. HilA is the key regulator of the Salmonella Pathogenicity Island I. To assess the role of hilA in colonization of gut and internal organs in poultry, animals were infected with 10(8) CFU of a delta hilA mutant of S. Enteritidis and its parent strain at day of hatch. Very low numbers of delta hilA mutant strain were able to colonize the internal organs shortly after infection, but they were not eliminated from internal organs at 4 weeks post-infection. At that time, the colonization level of the wild type bacteria in internal organs was decreased to the same low level compared with delta hilA mutant strain bacteria. Shedding of the delta hilA mutant strain and colonization of the caeca was seriously decreased relative to the parent strain starting from Day 5 post-infection. At 4 weeks post-infection, the delta hilA mutant strain was more or less eliminated from the chicken gut, while the parent strain was still shed to a high level and colonized the caeca to a high extent (more than 10(7) CFU/g). It is concluded that hilA is involved in long-term shedding and colonization of S. Enteritidis in the chicken caeca.  相似文献   

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本试验旨在研究饲料中添加活性酵母制剂对刺参生长、免疫力和抗病力的影响。采用单因素试验设计,通过在商品配合饲料中分别添加0(对照)、0.025%、0.050%、0.100%、0.200%和0.400%的活性酵母制剂,配制6种试验饲料,饲喂平均初始体重为(4.0±0.1)g的刺参6周。每种饲料设3个重复,每个重复放养15头刺参。6周的养殖试验结束后,每个重复选取10头刺参,每头刺参通过体壁注射灿烂弧菌(Vibrio splendidus)菌悬液0.1 m L(菌悬液浓度为1.5×109CFU/m L),观察记录灿烂弧菌攻毒14 d内的累计死亡率。结果表明:饲料中添加活性酵母制剂能显著提高刺参的特定生长率(P0.05),刺参特定生长率在添加量为0.200%时最高。饲料中添加活性酵母制剂后,刺参体腔液中过氧化氢酶(CAT)活性显著增加(P0.05);活性酵母制剂添加量为0.050%~0.400%时,刺参体腔液中溶菌酶(LZM)活性显著高于对照组(P0.05);活性酵母制剂添加量为0.200%~0.400%时,刺参体腔液中酸性磷酸酶(ACP)活性显著高于对照组(P0.05);活性酵母制剂添加量为0.400%时,刺参体腔液中超氧化物歧化酶(SOD)活性显著高于对照组(P0.05)。饲料中添加活性酵母制剂可降低攻毒14 d后刺参的累计死亡率,活性酵母制剂添加量为0.200%时,累计死亡率最低。由此可知,在本试验条件下,饲料中添加活性酵母制剂可促进刺参生长,提高免疫力和抗病力。综合分析刺参的生长、免疫力和抗病力以及实际生产情况,刺参饲料中活性酵母制剂的适宜添加量为0.200%~0.400%。  相似文献   

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本试验旨在探究不同饲喂模式对猪生长性能、养分消化率和肠道微生物组成的影响。选择120头平均初始体重(26.0±0.4)kg的生长猪(公、母各半),按体重和性别随机分为自由采食组(FA)和限制饲喂频率组(每天饲喂3次,M3),每个处理10个重复,每个重复6头猪,试验期共28 d。结果表明:M3组平均日采食量和耗料增重比均显著低于FA组(P<0.05);饲喂模式的改变对养分表观全肠道消化率无显著影响(P>0.05);M3组血浆尿素氮和游离脂肪酸水平显著低于FA组(P<0.05),而胰岛素水平显著高于FA组(P<0.05);饲喂模式对猪粪便微生物组成有一定影响,在门水平上,M3组拟杆菌门丰度显著低于FA组(P<0.05),柔膜菌门和疣微菌门丰度显著高于FA组(P<0.05);在属水平上,M3组Prevotellaceae_UCG-003、Ruminococcaceae_UCG-010、Ruminococcaceae_NK4A214_group、Rikenellaceae_RC9_gut_group和Coprostanoligenes_group的丰度显著高于FA组(P <0.05),而Selenomonas、Roseburia、Prevotella_2、Prevotella_7、Prevotella_9、Anaerovibrio和Alloprevotella的丰度显著低于FA组(P<0.05)。综上,饲喂模式对生长猪养分消化率无显著影响,限制饲喂频率可改变肠道微生物组成并改善生长猪饲料报酬。  相似文献   

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Two avirulent mutants of Streptococcus suis capsular type 2 (M2 and M42) were produced from a highly virulent strain. Mutant M2, obtained after serial subcultures of the parent strain in the presence of rabbit anti-capsular type 2 serum, no longer possessed the type-specific capsular antigen, as demonstrated by serotyping methods and immunoelectron microscopy. The Lancefield group D antigen could not be detected on the cell surface of this mutant using the immunogold labelling technique. SDS-PAGE of lysozyme treated cells demonstrated that a 44 kDa protein which was present in the parent strain, was absent in mutant M2. Immunoblotting using rabbit whole cell homologous anti-serum revealed that the protein was strongly immunogenic. Mutant M2 was totally avirulent in mice, and the homologous antiserum completely failed to protect mice against challenge with the parent strain. However, mutant M42, obtained after passages of the parent strain at 42 degrees C, remained capsulated but lacked the same 44 kDa protein as mutant M2. The quantity of sialic acid present in the capsule was similar to that of the parent strain. Despite the presence of antibodies against the capsule, antiserum prepared against M42 only partially protected mice against a challenge with the parent strain. The 44 kDa cell wall protein could act as a virulence factor as well as an important immunogen of S. suis capsular type 2.  相似文献   

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This study was conducted to investigate the effect of spray‐dried porcine plasma (SDPP) in broiler chickens under Salmonella sofia disease challenge. The experiment comprised five starter diets: positive control (no supplement), diet supplemented with in‐feed antibiotics (IFA; salinomycin 0.05% + zinc bacitracin 0.033%) and diets supplemented with SDPP at 10 or 20 g/kg diet. All four of these groups were challenged with S. sofia, while a fifth group was unchallenged and used as the negative control. The experimental diets were fed to 14 days; then, the birds were switched to commercial‐type grower and finisher diets. Oral inoculation of the challenged groups with S. sofia occurred on day 8, 10 and 12. Body weight was significantly higher in the birds fed diets containing IFA and SDPP than in the challenged control group, but it was only significant in starter and grower phases. In general, there was an improvement in the weights of the immune‐related organs, but it was only significant for the weight of the bursa of SDPP‐fed birds at 13 days. At day 13, blood potassium content was lower and the concentrations of IgG and IgM tended to be lower in the birds fed on low‐SDPP starter diets than those of the other groups. There were significant differences in the concentration of lactic acid in the ileum and acetic acid, formic acid, butyric acid and propionic acid in the caeca. Inclusion of SDPP to the starter diets of broiler chicks had positive effects on broiler performance, immunity and gut health during exposure to highly pathogenic conditions.  相似文献   

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