scholarly journals Dietary β-Sitosterol Improves Growth Performance, Meat Quality, Antioxidant Status, and Mitochondrial Biogenesis of Breast Muscle in Broilers

Animals ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 71 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yefei Cheng ◽  
Yueping Chen ◽  
Jun Li ◽  
Hengman Qu ◽  
Yurui Zhao ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Superoxide Dismutase ◽  
Growth Performance ◽  
Meat Quality ◽  
Mitochondrial Biogenesis ◽  
Oxidative Status ◽  
Superoxide Dismutase Activity ◽  
Breast Muscle ◽  
Peroxisome Proliferator ◽  
Scavenging Activity ◽  
Gain Ratio

The present study evaluated effects of β-sitosterol on growth performance, meat quality, oxidative status, and mitochondrial biogenesis of breast muscle in broilers. One-day-old chicks were allocated to five treatments of six replicates. Broilers were fed a basal diet supplemented either with 0 (control), 40, 60, 80, or 100 mg/kg β-sitosterol for 42 days. β-sitosterol linearly and quadratically reduced feed/gain ratio, lightness24h and cooking loss24h in breast muscle, whereas 2, 2-diphenyl-1-picrylhydrazyl scavenging activity of breast muscle followed an opposite trend. β-sitosterol linearly decreased drip loss24h and malondialdehyde content, whereas linearly increased pH24h, superoxide dismutase activity, and mRNA abundances of peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor γ coactivator 1α (PCG-1α) and mitochondrial transcription factor A (TFAM) in breast muscle. Compared with control, levels of β-sitosterol higher than 40 mg/kg reduced feed/gain ratio, muscular lightness24h, cooking loss24h, and malondialdehyde level, whereas increased muscular 2, 2-diphenyl-1-picrylhydrazyl scavenging activity, and mRNA abundances (except 60 mg/kg) of PCG-1α and TFAM. Eighty milligram/kilogram β-sitosterol increased muscular pH24h and superoxide dismutase activity, but decreased its drip loss24h. Therefore, β-sitosterol could improve growth performance and meat quality, oxidative status, and mitochondrial biogenesis of breast muscle in broilers. Furthermore, supplementation level of 80 mg/kg β-sitosterol is recommended for broiler diets.

Rosiglitazone maleate increases weight gain and body fat content in growing lambs

2016 ◽  
Vol 56 (7) ◽  
pp. 1185
Author(s):  
F. T. Fahri ◽  
I. J. Clarke ◽  
D. W. Pethick ◽  
R. D. Warner ◽  
F. R. Dunshea
Keyword(s):  
Growth Performance ◽  
Meat Quality ◽  
Feed Intake ◽  
Plasma Metabolites ◽  
Peroxisome Proliferator ◽  
Model Assessment ◽  
Peroxisome Proliferator Activated Receptor ◽  
Entire Study ◽  
Fat Depots ◽  
Muscle Ph

Thiazolidinediones (TZD) are synthetic orally active peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor γ ligands used in the treatment of diabetes mellitus. The peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor γ gene plays an important role in regulating fat cell development, energy balance, and lipid metabolism in adipose and skeletal muscle tissue. There is interest in pharmacologic or nutritional means that may complement genetic techniques to improve growth and carcass composition of lambs and the major aim of the present study was to determine whether TZD impact on growth performance and meat quality of growing lambs. An initial study with four cross-bred lambs confirmed that rosiglitazone maleate is absorbed after oral dosing for 7 days. A second study was conducted with 30 cross-bred lambs to investigate the effects of sex (ewe vs wether) and dose of orally administered rosiglitazone maleate (0, 8 and 24 mg/day) for 55 days on growth performance, body composition, plasma metabolites and insulin and meat quality. Feed intake tended to increase linearly with dose of TZD (1521, 1816 and 1878 g/day for 0, 8 and 24 mg/day, P = 0.07) over the entire study, and particularly during the second half of the study (P < 0.05). There were both linear (P = 0.05) and quadratic (P = 0.04) responses in average daily gain to TZD (215, 270 and 261 g/day) with the quadratic response being most pronounced over the second half of the study (P = 0.004). As a result of the increased feed intake back fat (9.4, 11.1 and 13.5 mm, P < 0.001) and carcass fat (27.5%, 29.2% and 30.1%, P = 0.05) increased linearly with dose of TZD. However, there was no effect of TZD on internal fat depots. Plasma non-esterified acid concentrations increased linearly (0.37, 0.39 and 0.41 mM, P = 0.01) whereas plasma insulin concentrations (23.2, 26.9 and 20.9 mU/L, P = 0.05) and the homeostatic model assessment (6.82, 7.73 and 5.98, P = 0.05) exhibited quadratic responses to TZD. There were no significant effects of TZD on muscle pH, temperature or colour although muscle pH was higher at any temperature in ewes (+ 0.05 of a pH unit, P = 0.036) than in wethers. In conclusion, these data confirm that rosiglitazone maleate was rapidly absorbed from the digestive tract of growing ruminant lambs and was metabolically active. Oral TZD treatment appeared to mitigate against the inhibitory effect of carcass fatness on feed intake but the additional energy consumed was in turn deposited as fat.

Dietary Taurine Attenuates Hydrogen Peroxide-Impaired Growth Performance and Meat Quality of Broilers via Modulating Redox Status and Cell Death Signaling

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tong Xing ◽  
Xiangxing Chen ◽  
Jiaolong Li ◽  
Lin Zhang ◽  
Feng Gao
Keyword(s):  
Oxidative Stress ◽  
Hydrogen Peroxide ◽  
Cell Death ◽  
Growth Performance ◽  
Meat Quality ◽  
Redox Status ◽  
Breast Muscle ◽  
Breast Meat ◽  
Cell Death Signaling

Abstract Oxidative stress seriously affects poultry production. Nutritional manipulations have been effectively used to alleviate the negative effects caused by oxidative stress. This study investigated the attenuating effects and potential mechanisms of dietary taurine on growth performance and meat quality of broiler chickens challenged with hydrogen peroxide (H2O2). Briefly, a total of 192 male Arbor Acres broilers (28-day-old) were randomly categorized into 3 groups: non-injection of birds on basal diets (control), 10.0% H2O2-injection of birds on basal diets (H2O2), and 10.0% H2O2-injection of birds on basal diets supplemented with 5 g/kg taurine (H2O2+taurine). Each group consisted of 8 cages of 8 birds each. Results indicated that H2O2 administration significantly reduced growth performance and impaired breast meat quality by decreasing ultimate pH and increasing shear force value (P &lt; 0.05). Dietary taurine improved the body weight gain and feed intake, and decreased feed/gain ratio of H2O2-challenged broilers. Meanwhile, oxidative stress induced by intraperitoneal injection of H2O2 suppressed the nuclear factor-κB (NF-κB) signaling and initiated autophagy and apoptosis. Compared with the H2O2 group, taurine supplementation restored the redox status in breast muscle by decreasing levels of reactive oxygen species and contents of oxidative products and increasing antioxidant capacity (P &lt; 0.05). Moreover, upregulated mRNA expression of NF-κB signaling-related genes including p50 and Bcl-2, as well as enhanced protein expression of NF-κB were observed in the H2O2+taurine group (P &lt; 0.05). Additionally, dietary taurine decreased expression of caspase family, beclin-1 and LC3-II (P &lt; 0.05), thereby rescuing autophagy and apoptosis in breast muscle induced by H2O2. Collectively, dietary supplementation with taurine effectively improves growth performance and breast meat quality of broilers challenged with H2O2, possibly by protecting against oxidative injury and modulating cell death signaling.

scholarly journals Effect of Dietary Curcumin on the Growth Performance, Serum Antioxidation and Meat Quality of Ducks (Anas Platyrhynchos)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sanjun Jin ◽  
Hao Yang ◽  
Fangju Liu ◽  
Xinping Diao ◽  
Qian Pang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Body Weight ◽  
Lipid Oxidation ◽  
Growth Performance ◽  
Volatile Compounds ◽  
Meat Quality ◽  
Basal Diet ◽  
Breast Muscle ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Final Body Weight

Abstract Background: With increasing of duck meat among consumers, the demand for growth performance and the meat quality health of ducks in increasing. Dietary curcumin altered the growth performance and meat quality. However, study on the effect of dietary curcumin on the growth performance, serum antioxidation and meat quality of ducks. This study invested effects of dietary curcumin given to ducks on the growth performance, antioxidation capacity in plasma, meat quality, lipid oxidation and the concentration of volatile compounds in duck breast muscle. A total of 600 healthy ducks with similar body weight were randomly allotted into 4 groups with 10 replicates per group and 15 ducks per replicate. Ducks were fed experimental diets which the curcumin supplemental levels were 0, 300, 400 and 500 mg curcumin/kg basic fed, respectively. The experiment lasted for 10 weeks. Results: Results showed that dietary supplementation of curcumin at levels 300, 400 and 500 mg/kg dietary (P < 0.05) improved the average final body weight. The ducks fed the basal diet without curcumin supplementation had the lowest FI (P > 0.05) and highest FCR (P > 0.05) among all ducks. Feeding ducks on diets supplemented with curcumin at each level significantly increased (P < 0.05) plasma activity of T-SOD and GSH-Px, and significantly reduced plasma MDA concentration compared to the control group. The dietary curcumin significantly increased the growth performance and the antioxidation capacity in plasma of ducks. Dietary curcumin improved the meat quality of ducks by significantly increasing pH45, pH24 (P < 0.05) and color of duck meat (P < 0.05), and significantly decreasing cooking loss (P < 0.05), shear force (P < 0.05), and the lipid oxidation of duck meat. 56 volatile compounds were identified and quantified. Interestingly, cantharidin among volatile compounds was firstly found in duck muscle, and only existed in the group of 500 mg curcumin/kg diet. Conclusions: In conclusion, the supplementation of duck diets with curcumin at 300, 400, and 500 mg/kg diet improved growth performance, antioxidant status and meat quality of ducks. The cantharidin was firstly found in duck breast muscle when the dietary curcumin inclusion of 500 mg/kg.

scholarly journals 97 The effects of excess iron on growth performance, intestinal and liver morphology and antioxidant capacity in weaned piglets

2019 ◽  
Vol 97 (Supplement_3) ◽  
pp. 80-80
Author(s):  
Xiaonan Yu ◽  
Jianan Han ◽  
Jie Feng
Keyword(s):  
Superoxide Dismutase ◽  
Glutathione Peroxidase ◽  
Antioxidant Capacity ◽  
Growth Performance ◽  
Superoxide Dismutase Activity ◽  
Weaned Piglets ◽  
Protein Carbonyl Content ◽  
Excess Iron ◽  
Liver Morphology ◽  
Iron Excretion

Abstract Iron is one of the essential trace elements for animals and involved in many important physiological processes, thus exogenous iron is often supplemented as feed additive. However, the addition of excess iron may have adverse effects on animals and the environment. To investigate the effects of excess iron on growth performance, intestinal and liver morphology and antioxidant capacity in weaned piglets, in this study, forty 23-day-old weaned piglets were allotted to 4 treatments，respectively received the basal diet containing 100, 400, 3000 or 10000 mg Fe/kg as FeSO4. The experiment lasted for 28 days and then the piglets were euthanized and sampled. Lower average daily gain and higher diarrhea rate were detected in the piglets received the diet with 3000 or 10000 mg Fe/kg. Iron excretion in piglets’ feces was dependent on the iron concentration in the diet. In addition, iron overload induced mitochondrial swelling and cell death in the duodenum and liver of piglets. Excessive iron also increased piglets’ serum malondialdehyde content and reduced glutathione peroxidase and superoxide dismutase activity. Furthermore, significant increase of malondialdehydecontent and protein carbonyl content in the intestine and decrease of total antioxidant capacity, glutathione peroxidase activity and superoxide dismutase activity in the liver were observed in the piglets received diet containing high concentrations of iron. In conclusion, the results indicated that excess iron would reduce the growth performance of weaned piglets and increase the iron excretion in feces which adversely affect the environment. It may also negatively affect intestine and liver morphology and reduce the antioxidant capacity of piglets.

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