Effects of traditional Chinese medicine formula on ruminal fermentation, enzyme activities and nutrient digestibility of beef cattle

Zhu, Zhi; Song, Zhenhui; Cao, Liru; Yong, Wang; Zhou, Wen-zhang; Zhou, Pei; Fu-yuan, Zuo

doi:10.1111/asj.12978

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“…An increase in propionic acid and propionic acid-to-acetic acid ratio was observed in this study, which is often observed as a result of enhanced digestion of fiber and the proliferation of microorganisms in the rumen and may induce changes in metabolic pathways and better rumen fermentation ( Christensen et al, 2015 ). This finding is in agreement with the findings reported by Zhu et al (2018) and Liang et al (2019) , who suggested that Chinese herbal mixture feed additives improved rumen fermentation, mainly by increasing the concentration of propionic acid and the ratio of propionic acid to acetic acid. Notably, propionate is the main source of glucose for ruminants ( den Besten et al, 2013 ), which may explain the improved carcass characteristics, especially net meat percentage, observed in the RE group in the present study.…”

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Effects of Herbal Tea Residue on Growth Performance, Meat Quality, Muscle Metabolome, and Rumen Microbiota Characteristics in Finishing Steers

Sun

Luo

et al. 2022

Front. Microbiol.

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Herbal tea residue (HTR) contains various medicinal and nutritional components and is a potential high-quality unconventional source of roughage. In this study, a total of 30 healthy Simmental crossbred finishing steers were equally divided into two groups: CN (fed with a basic diet) and RE (HTR partly replaced Pennisetum purpureum). HTR did not alter the growth performance of steers but increased the net meat rate, tenderness, and water-holding capacity and increased the moisture content and oleic acid and linoleic acid concentrations in longissimus dorsi. It altered muscle metabolic pathways and improved rumen fermentation by increasing the propionic acid concentration and propionic acid-to-acetic acid ratio. We studied the steers’ rumen microbial community composition and determined their correlation with the tested parameters. Certain rumen microorganisms were closely associated with muscle glucolipid metabolites and rumen NH3-N and volatile fatty acid levels. Our findings suggest that, as a functional roughage source, HTR improved to a certain extent the meat quality of steers by altering the rumen microbial composition and affecting the rumen fatty acid composition and muscle glucolipid metabolism.

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confidence: 93%

Effects of Herbal Tea Residue on Growth Performance, Meat Quality, Muscle Metabolome, and Rumen Microbiota Characteristics in Finishing Steers

Sun

Luo

et al. 2022

Front. Microbiol.

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“…Chinese medicine is an ancient practice of the Chinese people to prevent and cure diseases from ancient times to the present [118,119]. With the development of modern science and medicine, as an effective treatment method, millions of people in the world still use traditional Chinese medicine.…”

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Review on analytical technologies and applications in metabolomics

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LIU,

et al. 2024

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Over the past decade, the swift advancement of metabolomics can be credited to significant progress in technologies such as mass spectrometry, nuclear magnetic resonance, and multivariate statistics. Currently, metabolomics garners widespread application across diverse fields including drug research and development, early disease detection, toxicology, food and nutrition science, biology, prescription, and chinmedomics, among others.Metabolomics serves as an effective characterization technique, offering insights into physiological process alterations in vivo. These changes may result from various exogenous factors like environmental conditions, stress, medications, as well as endogenous elements including genetic and protein-based influences. The potential scientific outcomes gleaned from these insights have catalyzed the formulation of innovative methods, poised to further broaden the scope of this domain. Today, metabolomics has evolved into a valuable and widely accepted instrument in the life sciences. However, comprehensive reviews focusing on the sample preparation and analytical methodologies employed in metabolomics within the life sciences are surprisingly scant. This review aims to fill that gap, providing an overview of current trends and recent advancements in metabolomics. Particular emphasis is placed on sample preparation, sophisticated analytical techniques, and their applications in life science research.

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“…Tan et al [12] showed that LBP extracts could improve the growth performance of sh. Numerous literature reports have con rmed that herbs improve feed utilization and thus, animal growth performance by regulating the e ciency of rumen fermentation [13,14] and by in uencing animal feed intake and digestive enzyme secretion [15].…”

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Effect of dietary supplementation of Ganoderma lucidum residue on growth performance, immune organ index and faecal microbial community diversity in broiler chickens

Shi

Guo

Yang

et al. 2023

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Ganoderma lucidum residue (GLR) contains a variety of medicinal and nutritional components and is a potentially high quality roughage. The purpose of the experiment was to study the effects of GLR on the growth performance, immune function and intestinal flora of broilers. The study was conducted in a 90-day indoor cage experiment with broilers, and three feeding groups were set up with the addition of GLR to the basal diet at 0 (A), 10% (B) and 15% (C), with three replicates of 10 broilers in each group. The growth performance, immune organ index, and fecal microbial community structure of broiler chickens in different feeding groups were compared. The results showed that (1) there were no significant differences in the average daily weight gains of broilers in the different feeding groups. (2) The immune organ indices of broilers in Group B were higher than those in Groups A and C, with the spleen index in Group B being significantly higher than that in Group A. (3) The dominant phyla in the broiler faecal bacterial communities in all feeding groups were Firmicutes and Bacteroidetes, and the dominant genera were Lactobacillus, Bacteroides and Alistipes; however, the relative abundance of Bacteroidota was significantly higher in Group B than in Group A, and the relative abundances of Lactobacillus, Bacteroides and Alistipes were higher in Groups B and C than in Group A. (4) Manure microbial FAPROTAX functions predicted that GLR increased the abundances of heterotrophic and fermentative broiler manure microorganisms and significantly reduced the abundances of animal parasites or symbionts. In summary, group B was superior to other groups in terms of growth performance, spleen index and probiotic level. Adding GLR to the base feed has a positive effect on enhancing the immunity of broiler chickens, increasing the abundance of beneficial bacteria in the intestine, and maintaining the ecological balance of the intestinal flora. These findings reveal the effect of GLR on the fecal microorganisms of broiler chickens and provide a new development direction for improving poultry health.

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Effects of traditional Chinese medicine formula on ruminal fermentation, enzyme activities and nutrient digestibility of beef cattle

Cited by 10 publications

References 36 publications

Effects of Herbal Tea Residue on Growth Performance, Meat Quality, Muscle Metabolome, and Rumen Microbiota Characteristics in Finishing Steers

Effects of Herbal Tea Residue on Growth Performance, Meat Quality, Muscle Metabolome, and Rumen Microbiota Characteristics in Finishing Steers

Review on analytical technologies and applications in metabolomics

Effect of dietary supplementation of Ganoderma lucidum residue on growth performance, immune organ index and faecal microbial community diversity in broiler chickens

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