Effects of chitooligosaccharide supplementation on growth performance, nutrient digestibility, blood characteristics and immune responses after lipopolysaccharide challenge in weanling pigs

Autor: Seung-Oh Shin, Hyung-Jee Kim, Y.J. Chen, J.S. Yoo, In Ho Kim, Jin-Ho Cho, Y. Wang, Yan Huang
Rok vydání: 2009
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Zdroj: Livestock Science. 124:255-260
ISSN: 1871-1413
DOI: 10.1016/j.livsci.2009.02.006
Popis: The objective of this study was to determine the effects of dietary supplementation with chitooligosaccharide (COS) on growth performance, nutrient digestibility, blood characteristics and immune response in lipopolysaccharide-challenged weanling pigs. A total of 90 crossbred weanling pigs (5.44 ± 0.50 kg BW) were employed in Exp. 1. The three dietary treatments were basal diets supplemented with 0, 2.5, and 5 g COS/kg, and fed for 28 d. Each treatment had 6 replications with 5 pigs per pen. Increasing the level of supplemental COS tended to linearly (P
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