Simple Summary Heat stress, one of the major problems in tropical and subtropical regions, adversely affects poultry production. This study was designed to evaluate the effects of dietary betaine on growth performance, d...
VETERINARY MEDICINE AND SCIENCELan, Rui Xia Li, Si Qi Zhao, Zhihui An, Li Long 出版年:2020
This study was conducted to evaluate the effects of dietary sodium butyrate (SB) supplementation on growth performance, the development of gastrointestinal tract and immune organs (thymus, spleen and bursa of fabricius),...
FRONTIERS IN VETERINARY SCIENCEHan, Shuo Li, Xinli Liu, Juan Zou, Ziwen Luo, Lin Wu, Rui Zhao, Zhihui Wang, Changyuan Shen, Binglei 出版年:2020
Bovine mastitis is an inflammatory condition of the mammary gland often caused by (Staphylococcus aureus)S. aureusinfection. The aim of this study was to identify mastitis-related miRNAs and their downstream target genes...
POULTRY SCIENCELan, Ruixia Zhao, Zhihui Li, Siqi An, Lilong 出版年:2020
This study was conducted to investigate the effects of dietary sodium butyrate (SB) supplementation on growth performance, liver function, antioxidant capacity, carcass characteristics, and meat quality in broilers under...
LARGE ANIMAL REVIEWAli, Shaokat Zhao, Zhihui Zhen, Gao Kang, Jin Zi Yi, Pan Zi 出版年:2019
The primary fortitude of this study is to overview the environmental, nutritional and also some main infectious causes related to reproduction in small ruminants mainly sheep and goat, that caused milk, meat and wool pro...
The CD44 gene encodes a cell-surface glycoprotein that participates in a variety of biological processes such as cell interactions, adhesion, hematopoiesis, and tumor metastasis. We compared the transcriptome in bovine m...
Simple Summary Promoting fat deposition in beef cattle has been a focus of modern animal breeding research. However, previous researchers have not examined the mechanism of adipogenesis in much detail. MicroRNAs (miRNAs)...
Simple Summary Heat stress has negative effects on animal health and performance, and chitosan oligosaccharides (COS) exhibits antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effec...
ANNALS OF ANIMAL SCIENCELiu, Wen Chao Ye, Mao Liao, Jia Hao Zhao, Zhi Hui Kim, In Ho An, Li Long 出版年:2018
The use of probiotics as alternatives to antibiotics for farm animals is gaining more and more interest during recent years. Probiotics are living microorganisms that provide a wide variety of health benefits to the host...
ANIMALSLan, Ruixia Chang, Qingqing An, Lilong Zhao, Zhihui 出版年:2020
Simple Summary Oxidative stress adversely affects animal health and performance. Feed additives with antioxidant abilities supplementation can alleviate oxidative stress. The aim of this study was to evaluate the hypothe...
CZECH JOURNAL OF ANIMAL SCIENCELan, Ruixia Li, Siqi Chang, Qingqing An, Lilong Zhao, Zhihui 出版年:2020
The aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of sodium butyrate ( SB) on growth performance and development of digestive and immune organs in broilers. Dietary treatments had similar compositions but with 0%, 0.03%,...
POULTRY SCIENCEZou, Kun Asiamah, Collins Amponsah Lu, Li-li Liu, Yuanbo Pan, Yiting Chen, Tongxin Zhao, Zhihui Su, Ying 出版年:2020
This study investigated the factors that caused the differences in egg production during the development of ovarian follicles in Leizhou black ducks. Leizhou black ducks population was divided into 2 groups as high-yield...
JOURNAL OF ANIMAL PHYSIOLOGY AND ANIMAL NUTRITIONShen, Binglei Han, Shuo Wang, Yuxuan Yang, Zhuonina Zou, Ziwen Liu, Juan Zhao, Zhihui Wu, Rui Wang, Changyuan 出版年:2019
According to our previous studies, bta-miR-152, PRKAA1 and UCP3 are differentially expressed in mammary gland tissues of high milk fat and low milk fat cows, and the trend in bta-miR-152 expression is opposite from those...
During the urbanization, human activities have brought great changes to marine biodiversity and microbial communities of coastal water. Shenzhen is a coastal city that has developed rapidly over the past four decades, bu...
The ban on the use of antibiotic in feed encouraged nutritionists to using alternatives to maintain growth performance and intestinal function of broilers. This study was conducted to evaluate the effects of Yupingfeng p...
Short/branched chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase (ACADSB) is a member of the acyl-CoA dehydrogenase family of enzymes that catalyze the dehydrogenation of acyl-CoA derivatives in the metabolism of fatty acids. Our previous tr...
BIOMED RESEARCH INTERNATIONALShen, Binglei Yang, Zhuonina Han, Shuo Zou, Ziwen Liu, Juan Nie, Lian Dong, Wentao Li, E. Liu, Shengjun Zhao, Zhihui Wu, Rui 出版年:2019
According to our previous studies, bta-miR-124a was differentially expressed in breast tissue between high-fat and low-fat dairy cows. However, the function of bta-miR-124a in lipid metabolism of dairy cows and the ident...
ANIMAL REPRODUCTION SCIENCEAmponsah, Collins Asiamah Zou, Kun Lu, Li-li Zhang, Shao-Wei Xue, Yuan Su, Ying Zhao, Zhihui 出版年:2019
Duck eggs are highly nutritious, and demand for consumption has markedly increased in the growing human population, resulting in the need to increase production. Egg production is dependent on the reproductive performanc...
Seashore habitats are located between terrestrial and marine ecosystems, which are a hotspot for anthropogenic impacts. Shenzhen is one of the most developed cities in south China, but the microbial functions of its coas...
POULTRY SCIENCEXu, H. D. Li, T. Wang, Z. Adu-Asiamah, P. Leng, Q. Y. Zheng, J. H. Zhao, Z. H. An, L. L. Zhang, X. Q. Zhang, L. 出版年:2019
Muscle is one of the important economic traits in poultry production, and its production depends on the increased number of muscle fibers during the embryonic stage. Chicken GHR gene can transcribe in double directions, ...
SCIENTIFIC REPORTSLiu, Yinuo Albrecht, Elke Dannenberger, Dirk Hammon, Harald M. Kuehn, Christa Sauerwein, Helga Yang, Runjun Zhao, Zhihui Maak, Steffen 出版年:2019
Retinol binding protein 4 (RBP4) facilitates the transport of retinol in the body but is also an adipokine and fatty acid transporter. Our study was aimed at investigating the associations between RBP4 abundance and fat ...
CircRNAs play important roles in chicken's growth. In this context, we studied the expression profiles of circRNAs between the GHR antisense transcript overexpressed and the control groups of chicken hepatocytes by using...
GENEWang, Zhang Xu, HaiDong Li, Ting Wu, Jiang An, LiLong Zhao, ZhiHui Xiao, Mei Adu-Asiamah, Patricia Zhang, XiQuan Zhang, Li 出版年:2019
An increasing number of evidences indicated that long noncoding RNAs (LncRNAs) regulate a variety of biological progresses via different mechanisms. Our previous study had identified a chicken growth hormone receptor (GH...
VETERINARY MEDICINE AND SCIENCEAsiamah, Collins Xue, Yuan Lu, Li-li Zou, Kun Zhao, Zhihui Su, Ying 出版年:2020
This study determined the growth performance, correlations of linear body dimensions, slaughter performance and the fitting model of two generations of Leizhou Black Ducks. Fifteen (15) male and 225 female parents formin...