Colibacillosis caused by avian pathogenic (APEC) is a very prevalent disease in poultry farms in China. The exploration of effective non-antibiotic substances is of great significance for the control of APEC infections. This experiment evaluated the efficacy of coated essential oil and organic acid (EOA) supplementation to prevent O78 infection in broiler chickens.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Preventing Salmonella infection and colonization in young birds is key to improving poultry gut health and reducing Salmonella contamination of poultry products and decreasing salmonellosis for human consumption (poultry meat and eggs). Probiotics can improve poultry health. The present study was conducted to investigate the impact of a probiotics, Enterococcus faecium NCIMB 11181 (E.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWe isolated and screened two tumor cell clones DD1 and DG6 with different capacity of metastasis from the same parent cell line, a mouse dendritic cell (DC) sarcoma, using limited dilution method. The genome-wide expressions of DD1 and DG6 cells were detected by Affymetrix's MOE-430A microarray. The expression profiles related with mouse DC development were downloaded from GEO at NCBI and ArrayExpress at EBI database.
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