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SUBMITTER: Cheng Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6466163 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Cheng Yefei Y Chen Yueping Y Li Jun J Qu Hengman H Zhao Yurui Y Wen Chao C Zhou Yanmin Y
Animals : an open access journal from MDPI 20190226 3
The present study evaluated effects of β-sitosterol on growth performance, meat quality, oxidative status, and mitochondrial biogenesis of breast muscle in broilers. One-day-old chicks were allocated to five treatments of six replicates. Broilers were fed a basal diet supplemented either with 0 (control), 40, 60, 80, or 100 mg/kg β-sitosterol for 42 days. β-sitosterol linearly and quadratically reduced feed/gain ratio, lightness<sub>24h</sub> and cooking loss<sub>24h</sub> in breast muscle, wher ...[more]