Sun-dried Azolla leaf meal at 10% dietary inclusion improved growth, meat quality, and increased skeletal muscle Ribosomal protein S6 kinase β1 abundance in growing rabbit

Abdelatty, Alzahraa M.; Mandouh, M.I.; Mousa, Mohamed Refat; Mansour, Hayam A.; Ford, Hunter; Shaheed, Iman B.; Elolimy, Ahmed A.; Prince, Abdelbary; El-Sawy, M.; AbuBakr, Huda O.; Bionaz, Massimo

doi:10.1016/j.animal.2021.100348

Cited by 10 publications

(10 citation statements)

References 23 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…Similarly, the supplementation of 30% Brassica oleraceae leaf [8] and 7.5% Azadirachta indica leaf [13] did not influence carcass weight and dress out percentage in rabbits. By contrast, dietary Azolla pinnata leaf, [12] M. oleifera, and L. leucocephala leaf meal [40] altered carcass weight and dress out percentage in rabbits. Dietary KPL lowered (p < 0.05) abdominal fat in rabbits.…”

Section: Growth and Carcass Traitsmentioning

confidence: 80%

“…Similar to the current findings, supplementation of 10% Leucaena leucocephala leaf, [37] 10% Olea europaea leaf, [38] and 7.5% Azadirachta indica leaf [13] did not affect growth performance in rabbits. Contrarily, supplementation of 15% M. oleifera, L. leucocephala, or A. saligna leaves [39] and Azolla pinnata leaf [12] caused significant changes in growth and feed efficiency in rabbits. Dietary KPL did not affect (p > 0.05) carcass weight, dress out percentage, weight of prime cuts, and internal organs in rabbits (Table 3).…”

Section: Growth and Carcass Traitsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…[8,11] Moreover, the leaf meal often serves as a cheaper potential alternative for dietary protein in livestock. [12,13] One of the potential tree leaves that could be utilized in livestock nutrition is Kigelia pinnata (Jacq.) DC, which is commonly called Sausage tree.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

See 2 more Smart Citations

Growth Performance, Carcass Traits, Muscle Fatty Acids, Intramuscular Fat, Cholesterol, and Antioxidant Status in Rabbits Supplemented with Kigelia pinnata Leaf Meal

Adeyemi

Akinfenwa

Atolanı

et al. 2022

Euro J Lipid Sci & Tech

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The effects of dietary Kigelia pinnata leaf (KPL) on growth, carcass, muscle fatty acids, antioxidant status, cholesterol, physicochemical properties, and sensory profile of Longissimus thoracis et lumburum (LTL) muscle in rabbits are investigated. Seventy-two, 32 d old male New Zealand rabbits (684 ± 18 g) are randomly assigned to diets containing either no KPL (KPL-0), 5% KPL (KPL-5) or 10% KPL (KPL-10) for eight weeks, and euthanized, and the LTL is refrigerated for 6 days. Dietary KPL does not influence growth performance and carcass cuts in rabbits. Abdominal fat is lower in KPLrabbits than in the KPL-0 rabbits. Supplemented LTL has lower intramuscular fat and cholesterol, and higher crude protein, polyphenol content, glutathione reductase, and catalase compared with the control LTL. Concentration of C18:3n-3, C22:6n-3, and C20:5n-3 is higher in supplemented LTL than the control LTL. Supplemented meat has lower cook loss than the KPL-0 meat at 24 h postmortem. The KPL-10 meat has higher redness and lower malondialdehyde content than other meats on d 6 postmortem. Juiciness and overall acceptance of the supplemented meat are higher than that of the KPL-0 meat. Supplementation with KPL-10 enhances muscle n-3 fatty acids, sensorial quality, and oxidative stability of rabbit meat. Practical Applications: Practical applications: Rabbit meat is replete in n-6 polyunsaturated fatty acid (PUFA) but low in n-3 PUFA, which heightens its n-6/n-3 ratio. Higher n-6/n-3 PUFA intake can pose serious health risks to consumers. This suggests a need to ameliorate the n-3 PUFA of rabbit meat. Dietary KPL causes ≈147-184% increase in n-3 PUFA and a 66-77% decrease in n-6/n-3 ratio in rabbit meat. Moreover, KPL improves sensorial quality and oxidative stability and lowers intramuscular fat and cholesterol content of rabbit meat. These results support the delivery of a healthier rabbit meat that responds to consumer demands. This study explicates the potential of KPL in ameliorating the nutritional value and sensory quality of rabbit meat.

show abstract

Section: Growth and Carcass Traitsmentioning

confidence: 80%

Section: Growth and Carcass Traitsmentioning

confidence: 99%

See 1 more Smart Citation

Growth Performance, Carcass Traits, Muscle Fatty Acids, Intramuscular Fat, Cholesterol, and Antioxidant Status in Rabbits Supplemented with Kigelia pinnata Leaf Meal

Adeyemi

Akinfenwa

Atolanı

et al. 2022

Euro J Lipid Sci & Tech

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…Samples of intestinal tissues were used to evaluate the villus height. Morphometric measurements were collected from 10 different villi per sample according to (Aptekmann et al, 2001; Abdelatty et al, 2021). Samples of splenic tissues were used to evaluate the activated melanomacrophage centres (MMCs).…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Effect of poultry offal silage with or without betaine supplementation on growth performance, intestinal morphometry, spleen histomorphology of Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) fingerlings

Eissa

Yusuf

Younis

et al. 2021

Animal Physiology Nutrition

Self Cite

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Fishmeal (FM) is the main protein source in fish feed. However, it is quite expensive due to its limited resources. Therefore, finding a dietary alternative to the FM to sustain fish production is crucial, and the current study was performed to assess the impact of poultry offal silage (POS) with or without betaine supplementation; as an effective and cheaper alternative to FM; on feed efficiency, growth performance, spleen morphology and intestinal morphometry of Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) fingerlings. Four dietary treatments were formulated: (1) FM based diet, (2) FM‐B; FM diet +0.7% betaine, (3) POS diet and (4) POS‐B; POS diet +0.7% betaine. Each dietary treatment consisted of three replicates (n = 10/replicate), and the experiment was continued for 16 weeks. By the end of the experiment, spleen and intestine specimens were collected from 15 fish (n = 5/replicate) for histopathological assessment. The results were statistically analysed using GLM procedures of SAS 9.4. Feed efficiency increased in both POS‐B and FM‐B groups (p = 0.01), while body weight and body weight gain showed only weak tendencies towards an increase (p = 0.10 and 0.12, respectively). The villi length was the highest in POS‐B fed group (p < 0.01). In addition, melanomacrophage centres of the spleen increased in both betaine‐supplemented groups (p < 0.01). From our findings, we conclude that betaine supplementation with poultry offal silage improved production performance and immune status of Nile tilapia fish.

show abstract

“…5% of total body) and have long been an ideal model for investigating BAT development and functions ( Hardman et al, 1971 ; Harris et al, 1986 ; Comeglio et al, 2018 ). The abundant BAT might be a factor that keeps rabbits lean and enables rabbits to yield low-fat meats ( Abdelatty et al, 2021 ). Naturally, the classical BAT of rabbits losses its thermogenic phenotype during the growth period ( Derry et al, 1972 ).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Dynamics of transcriptome and chromatin accessibility revealed sequential regulation of potential transcription factors during the brown adipose tissue whitening in rabbits

Chen

Xue

et al. 2022

Front. Cell Dev. Biol.

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Brown adipose tissue (BAT) represents a valuable target for treating obesity in humans. BAT losses of thermogenic capacity and gains a “white adipose tissue-like (WAT-like)” phenotype (BAT whitening) under thermoneutral environments, which could lead to potential low therapy responsiveness in BAT-based obesity treatments. However, the epigenetic mechanisms of BAT whitening remain largely unknown. In this study, BATs were collected from rabbits at day0 (D0), D15, D85, and 2 years (Y2). RNA-sequencing (RNA-seq) and the assay for transposase-accessible chromatin with high-throughput sequencing (ATAC-seq) were performed to investigate transcriptome and chromatin accessibility of BATs at the four whitening stages, respectively. Our data showed that many genes and chromatin accessible regions (refer to as “peaks”) were identified as significantly changed during BAT whitening in rabbits. The BAT-selective genes downregulated while WAT-selective genes upregulated from D0 to Y2, and the de novo lipogenesis-related genes reached the highest expression levels at D85. Both the highly expressed genes and accessible regions in Y2 were significantly enriched in immune response-related signal pathways. Analysis of different relationships between peaks and their nearby genes found an increased proportion of the synchronous changes between chromatin accessibility and gene expression during BAT whitening. The synergistic changes between the chromatin accessibility of promoter and the gene expression were found in the key adipose genes. The upregulated genes which contained increased peaks were significantly enriched in the PI3K-Akt signaling pathway, steroid biosynthesis, TGF-beta signaling pathway, osteoclast differentiation, and dilated cardiomyopathy. Moreover, the footprinting analysis suggested that sequential regulation of potential transcription factors (TFs) mediated the loss of thermogenic phenotype and the gain of a WAT-like phenotype of BAT. In conclusion, our study provided the transcriptional and epigenetic frameworks for understanding BAT whitening in rabbits for the first time and might facilitate potential insights into BAT-based obesity treatments.

show abstract

Sun-dried Azolla leaf meal at 10% dietary inclusion improved growth, meat quality, and increased skeletal muscle Ribosomal protein S6 kinase β1 abundance in growing rabbit

Cited by 10 publications

References 23 publications

Growth Performance, Carcass Traits, Muscle Fatty Acids, Intramuscular Fat, Cholesterol, and Antioxidant Status in Rabbits Supplemented with Kigelia pinnata Leaf Meal

Growth Performance, Carcass Traits, Muscle Fatty Acids, Intramuscular Fat, Cholesterol, and Antioxidant Status in Rabbits Supplemented with Kigelia pinnata Leaf Meal

Effect of poultry offal silage with or without betaine supplementation on growth performance, intestinal morphometry, spleen histomorphology of Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) fingerlings

Dynamics of transcriptome and chromatin accessibility revealed sequential regulation of potential transcription factors during the brown adipose tissue whitening in rabbits

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About