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SUBMITTER: Qiao H
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5928015 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Qiao Hongxing H Zhang Liheng L Shi Hongtao H Song Yuzhen Y Bian Chuanzhou C
AMB Express 20180430 1
The gut microbiota play important roles in the degradation of chemical compounds of herbal medicines (HMs). However, little information regarding the interplay between HMs and the gut microbiota is available. Thus, the aim of this study was to investigate the composition of the fecal microbiota of young (age, 11 weeks) hens fed a conventional diet containing a crude Astragalus (0.5%) additive for 21 days (group A) vs. controls (group B) that were fed only conventional feed. The fecal contents of ...[more]