The objective of this study was to reveal the effects of early life lactoferrin intervention on the liver metabolism in the suckling piglets. Sixty newborn piglets with an average initial body weight (BW) of 1.51 ± 0.05 kg were assigned to the control (CON) group and the lactoferrin (LF) group. P...
Three-day-old piglets were orally inoculated with L. reuteri, with age-matched untreated piglets serving as controls. Five days post-inoculation, all piglets were challenged with PEDV. Jejunal contents were collected during acute infection for non-targeted metabolomic profiling.For non-disea...
BACKGROUND: Dietary intervention has been reported to improve intestinal health. The intestinal microbiota of newborn animals plays a fundamental role in the development of intestinal function and the innate immune system. However, little is currently known about dietary interven...
BACKGROUND: Diarrhea is common in infants, particularly, children less than 2 years old. Intractable or protracted infancy diarrhea is typically associated with feeding intolerance and malabsorption that is lethal for newborns. This study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of ba...
Post-weaning diarrhea (PWD) causes significant economic losses to the pig farming industry. Our previous study demonstrated that the engineered Bacillus subtilis WB600/ZD (an engineered Bacillus subtilis strain expressing the antimicrobial defensin peptide from Zophobas atratus), alleviates intes...
Together with environmental factors, physiological maturity at birth is a major determinant for neonatal survival and postnatal development in mammalian species. Maturity at birth is the outcome of complex mechanisms of intra-uterine development and maturation during the end of gestation. In pig ...
Porcine deltacoronavirus (PDCoV) is an emerging enteric coronavirus that causes severe diarrhea and high mortality in neonatal piglets and has demonstrated the capacity to infect human cells. However, the host response networks that govern disease outcome remain poorly understood. Here, we perfor...