Effects of Dietary Inclusion of Prebiotic, Probiotic and Synbiotic on the Intestinal Glucose Absorption of Broiler Chickens

Awad, W. A.; Ghareeb, K.; Nitsch, S.; Pasteiner, S.; Abdel-Raheem, Sherief M.; BÃ¶hm, J.

doi:10.3923/ijps.2008.686.691

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“…Live body weight and body weight gain were significantly (P<0.05) improved with supplemental charcoal A or B at 0.2, 0.4 or 0.6% levels as compared with the control group. These findings are consistent with previous reports showing that supplementation of activated charcoal (Ademoyero and Dalvi 1983;Dalvi and Ademoyero 1984;Dalvi and McGowan 1984;Ramos et al 1996;Ruttanavut et al 2009) or an antibiotic growth promoter (Anderson et al 1999;Awad et al 2008) improved weight gain and feed conversion ratio. The improvement in live body weight and body weight gain obtained in this study could be associated with the beneficial effect of charcoals in intestinal bacteria competing with the host for available nutrients and a reduction of possibly toxic bacterial metabolites.…”

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“…This has led to the severe restriction or total ban on the use of antibiotics as growth promoters and therapeutic agents in the poultry industry. Thus, using non-therapeutic compounds such as enzymes (Pourreza et al;, organic acids (Abdel-Fattah et al;, phytochemicals (Emadi and Kermanshahi 2006), pro and prebiotics (Songsak et al 2008;Awad et al 2008) and plant charcoal (Ademoyero and Dalvi 1983;Dalvi and McGowan 1984;Ruttanavut et al 2009) just to name a few is an alternative.…”

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confidence: 97%

“…Most of the physiological effects associated with prebiotics consumption are directly linked to their selective promotion of specific strains of gut microorganisms, particularly Bifidobacteria and Lactobacilli that produce short chain fatty acids, lactic acid and a range of other microbial enzymes (Awad et al 2008). However, these prebiotics are not readily available to African poultry farmers and are usually expensive, thus the necessity to look for efficient and cheaper alternatives.…”

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Growth performance and carcass characteristics of broiler chickens fed diets supplemented with graded levels of charcoal from maize cob or seed of Canarium schweinfurthii Engl

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Growth performances and carcass characteristics of broiler chickens fed diets supplemented with graded levels of Canarium schweinfurthii Engl seed (charcoal A) or maize cob (charcoal B) were studied using a total of 110 3-week-old male chicks. 11 experimental diets including a control and other containing either 0.2, 0.4, 0.6, 0.8 or 1% charcoal from C. schweinfurthii Engl seed (A(0.2), A(0.4), A(0.6), A(0.8), and A(1%), respectively) or from maize cob (B(0.2), B(0.4), B(0.6), B(0.8), and B(1%), respectively) supplements were used. Each of the diets was fed to ten individually birds caged in a completely randomized design. Results indicated that birds fed 0.2, 0.4, and 0.6% of either charcoal A or B had significantly (P < 0.05) higher final body weights as compared to control birds, while, above 0.6% slightly depressed average final body weights and weight gain. The best growth performance was achieved with 0.2% inclusion of charcoals. There was no significant (P > 0.05) influence of charcoal B on the overall feed intake. Only the B(0.6) feed significantly (P < 0.05) improved feed conversion ratio as compared with the control. Dressing percentage, liver weight and abdominal fat were not significantly (P > 0.05) affected by charcoal. However, there was a significant (P < 0.05) reduction in gizzard weight with charcoal B. Charcoal had no significant (P > 0.05) influence on intestine length and weight. More than 0.6% of charcoal A significantly (P < 0.05) depressed intestine density. It was concluded that under the conditions of this study, charcoal from maize cob or Canarium seeds could be used to improve growth performances and some carcass traits in broiler chickens.

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Growth performance and carcass characteristics of broiler chickens fed diets supplemented with graded levels of charcoal from maize cob or seed of Canarium schweinfurthii Engl

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“…The use of Syn in poultry production encourages a healthy gut via certain possible mechanisms, such as enhancing the immune system (Hamasalim, 2016), lowering pH, and increasing protective gut mucus (Nikpiran et al, 2014), creating an antimicrobial effect (Likotrafiti et al, 2016), increasing the digestibility of nutrients (Awad et al, 2008), and enhancing nutrition performance (Elfaki and Mukhtar, 2015;Pelícia et al, 2004). In previous studies conducted on poultry, it was reported that the use of Syn enhances growth performance (Vahdatpour et al, 2011;Min et al, 2016) and carcass yield (Pelícia et al, 2004).…”

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Effects of dietary addition of synbiotic on the performance, carcass traits, and serum parameters of Japanese quails

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2017

R. Bras. Zootec.

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-This study aimed to evaluate the effects of different levels of synbiotic (Syn) on the growth performance, carcass traits, and serum parameters of Japanese quails. A total of 1,500 (750 male and 750 female) Japanese quails were assigned to five treatments, including the control (basal diet) and basal diets with the addition of 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, and 0.4% Syn according to a completely randomized design. Each treatment in the male and female experiment groups consisted of five replicates, with 30 chicks for each replicate. The addition of Syn had no effect on body weight (BW), while the BW of female quails was higher than that of male quails at day 42. The addition of Syn reduced feed intake (FI) and improved the feed conversion ratio (FCR) (P<0.000). The daily body weight gain and FI were significantly higher in female than in male quails and Syn also improved the FCR in the overall experiment. The effect of the addition of Syn on carcass parameters (except for abdominal fat) was not determined. The addition of Syn decreased abdominal fat weight and percentage when compared with the control group. Male quails were found to have higher carcass yield, wing, neck, and other percentages than female quails. However, female quails were found to have higher breast, breast skin, abdominal fat, and visceral organ percentages. The addition of 0.1% Syn to quail ration reduced serum aspartate aminotransferase, high-density lipoprotein (HDL), total protien (TP), and albumin (ALB) levels at day 42 of the trial. The addition of Syn decreased the serum total cholesterol level. Gender was found to have an effect in that female quails were found to have higher total cholesterol, HDL, TP, and ALB levels than male quails. In both genders, the addition of Syn improved the BWG, FC, and FCR in the overall experiment, reduced abdominal fat, decreased the total cholesterol levels, improved the HDL levels, and increased the TP and ALB levels at day 42. The addition of 0.3 and/or 0.4% synbiotic has a positive effect on quails by improving performance and enhancing some serum lipids and protein parameters.

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“…Normal bacterial inhabitants of the chicken alimentary tract play an important function in feed digestion and in the health of the host (Awad et al, 2009). Likewise, the normal vaginal microflora is suggested to play an important role in promoting health and preventing urogenital infections such as bacterial vaginosis and urinary tract infections, which are a major medical problem and affect millions of women annually (Atassi et al, 2006;Kwok et al, 2006;Verstraelen et al, 2009).…”

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Identification of a high-molecular-mass Lactobacillus epithelium adhesin (LEA) of Lactobacillus crispatus ST1 that binds to stratified squamous epithelium

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Effects of Dietary Inclusion of Prebiotic, Probiotic and Synbiotic on the Intestinal Glucose Absorption of Broiler Chickens

Cited by 32 publications

References 17 publications

Growth performance and carcass characteristics of broiler chickens fed diets supplemented with graded levels of charcoal from maize cob or seed of Canarium schweinfurthii Engl

Growth performance and carcass characteristics of broiler chickens fed diets supplemented with graded levels of charcoal from maize cob or seed of Canarium schweinfurthii Engl

Effects of dietary addition of synbiotic on the performance, carcass traits, and serum parameters of Japanese quails

Identification of a high-molecular-mass Lactobacillus epithelium adhesin (LEA) of Lactobacillus crispatus ST1 that binds to stratified squamous epithelium

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