Selenium-Enriched Cardamine violifolia Increases Selenium and Decreases Cholesterol Concentrations in Liver and Pectoral Muscle of Broilers.

Background: Supernutrition of selenium (Se) in an effort to produce Se-enriched meat may inadvertently cause lipid accumulation. Se-enriched Cardamine violifolia (SeCv) contains >80% of Se in organic forms.

Objectives: This study was to determine whether feeding chickens a high dose of SeCv could produce Se-biofortified muscle without altering their lipid metabolism.

Effect of Dietary Amylose/Amylopectin Ratio on Intestinal Health and Cecal Microbes' Profiles of Weaned Pigs Undergoing Feed Transition or Challenged With Lipopolysaccharide.

Background: Dietary amylose/amylopectin ratio (DAR) plays an important role in piglets' intestinal health. It is controversial whether diarrhea could be relieved by changing DAR in weaning piglets.

Methods: Sixty (Landrace × Yorkshire) castrated male pigs (initial body weight (BW) 6.

Effects of folic acid on the performance of suckling piglets and sows during lactation.

Background: The present research was conducted to investigate the influences of supplementation with different levels of folic acids in diet on the performance of lactating sows. Twenty Landrace × Yorkshire sows received the same basal corn-soybean diets (folic acid, 1.3 mg kg(-1)) from gestation to parturition (day 107).

Chloride intracellular channel 5 modulates adipocyte accumulation in skeletal muscle by inhibiting preadipocyte differentiation.

Intramuscular fat, the total lipid deposited within skeletal muscle, has been regarded as a potential factor responsible for meat quality in animal production and insulin resistance in humans. The objective of present study was to identify candidate genes which control intramuscular fat accumulation through using animal models. PIC pigs (lean-type) and Rongchang pigs (obese-type) were used.