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Short-term effect of supplemental yeast extract without or with feed enzymes on growth performance, immune status and gut structure of weaned pigs challenged with Escherichia coli lipopolysaccharide.

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND:This study investigated the response of piglets receiving a yeast extract without or with a multi-enzyme mixture compared with an antimicrobial growth promoter (AGP) on performance, immune status and gut structure after an E. coli lipopolysaccharide (LPS) challenge. Thirty-six pigs were allotted to six treatments including: a non-challenged control (NCC); LPS-challenged control (CC); CC?+?AGP; CC?+?yeast extract; CC?+?enzymes; and CC?+?enzymes?+?yeast extract. On d 7, pigs were bled and thereafter injected with LPS or sterile saline. Blood samples were collected at 6, 48, and 96 h post-challenge. After 96 h post-challenge, pigs were euthanized to obtain duodenal, jejunal and ileal samples. RESULTS:Overall (d 1 to 11), compared with CC pigs, AGP attenuated the LPS-induced reduction in ADG (P?=?0.004), ADFI (P?=?0.03) and gain/feed ratio (P?=?0.01). At 6 h post-challenge, AGP pigs had lower plasma urea N (PUN; P?=?0.02) and serum TNF- ? concentration (P?=?0.07), and higher platelet count (P?=?0.04) and serum IL-10 concentration (P?=?0.02) than CC pigs. At 48 h post-challenge, AGP pigs had lower PUN (P?=?0.02) than CC pigs, whereas enzymes?+?yeast extract interacted non-additively (P?=?0.001) to reduce PUN. At 96 h post-challenge, AGP pigs had lower PUN (P?=?0.02) and higher duodenal (P?=?0.03), jejunal (P?=?0.01) and ileal (P?=?0.07) villus height than CC pigs. In addition, enzymes?+?yeast extract interacted additively and non-additively to reduce ileal IFN-? (P??0.10) were observed between AGP and enzymes?+?yeast extract pigs on other measured parameters except for the downregulation of ileal IFN-? (P?

SUBMITTER: Waititu SM

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5094091 | biostudies-literature | 2016

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Short-term effect of supplemental yeast extract without or with feed enzymes on growth performance, immune status and gut structure of weaned pigs challenged with <i>Escherichia coli</i> lipopolysaccharide.

Waititu Samuel M SM Yin Fugui F Patterson Rob R Rodriguez-Lecompte Juan C JC Nyachoti Charles M CM

Journal of animal science and biotechnology 20161103

<h4>Background</h4>This study investigated the response of piglets receiving a yeast extract without or with a multi-enzyme mixture compared with an antimicrobial growth promoter (AGP) on performance, immune status and gut structure after an <i>E. coli</i> lipopolysaccharide (LPS) challenge. Thirty-six pigs were allotted to six treatments including: a non-challenged control (NCC); LPS-challenged control (CC); CC + AGP; CC + yeast extract; CC + enzymes; and CC + enzymes + yeast extract. On d 7, p ...[more]

PMID: 27822369

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Project description:Post-weaning diarrhea caused by enterotoxigenic E. coli (ETEC) causes significant economic losses for pig producers. This study was to test the hypotheses that an ETEC challenge disrupts intestinal microbial homeostasis and the inclusion of dietary soluble (10% sugar beet pulp) or insoluble fiber (15% corn distillers dried grains with solubles) with or without exogenous carbohydrases will protect or restore the gut microbial homeostasis in weaned pigs. Sixty crossbred piglets (6.9 ± 0.1 kg) were blocked by body weight and randomly assigned to one of six treatments (n = 10), including a non-challenged control (NC), ETEC F18-challenged positive control (PC), ETEC-challenged soluble fiber without (SF-) or with carbohydrases (SF+), and ETEC-challenged insoluble fiber without (IF-) or with carbohydrases (IF+). Pigs were housed individually and orally received either ETEC inoculum or PBS-sham inoculum on day 7 post-weaning. Intestinal contents were collected on day 14 or 15. The V4 region of the bacterial 16S rRNA was amplified and sequenced. High-quality reads (total 6,671,739) were selected and clustered into 3,330 OTUs. No differences were observed in α-diversity among treatments. The ileal microbiota in NC and PC had modest separation in the weighted PCoA plot; the microbial structures were slightly altered by SF+ and IF- compared with PC. The PC increased ileal Escherichia-Shigella (P < 0.01) and numerically decreased Lactobacillus compared to NC. Predicted functional pathways enriched in the ileal microbiota of PC pigs indicated enhanced activity of Gram-negative bacteria, in agreement with increased Escherichia-Shigella. The SF+ tended to decrease (P < 0.10) ileal Escherichia-Shigella compared to PC. Greater abundance of ileal Streptococcus, Turicibacter, and Roseburia and colonic Prevotella were observed in SF- and SF+ than PC (P < 0.05). Pigs fed IF + had greater Lactobacillus and Roseburia than PC pigs (P < 0.05). The ETEC challenge reduced total volatile fatty acid (VFA) compared with NC (P < 0.05). The SF+ tended to increase (P < 0.10) and SF- significantly increased (P < 0.05) colonic total VFA compared with PC. Collectively, ETEC challenge disrupted gut microbial homeostasis and impaired microbial fermentation capacity. Soluble fiber improved VFA production. Dietary fiber and carbohydrases altered microbiota composition to maintain or restore microbial homeostasis.

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Short-term effect of supplemental yeast extract without or with feed enzymes on growth performance, immune status and gut structure of weaned pigs challenged with Escherichia coli lipopolysaccharide.

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Short-term effect of supplemental yeast extract without or with feed enzymes on growth performance, immune status and gut structure of weaned pigs challenged with <i>Escherichia coli</i> lipopolysaccharide.

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