Polyphenols are secondary plant metabolites which have been shown to exert antioxidative
and antiinflamma tory effects in cell culture, rodent and human studies. Based on the fact …

The body's early defence in response to trauma, inflammation or infection, the acute phase
response, is a complex set of systemic reactions seen shortly after exposure to a triggering …

Subacute ruminal acidosis (SARA) is likely to arise when an easily palatable, high‐energy
diet meets a ruminal environment not adapted to this type of substrate. Increase of short …

Excessive heat exposure reduces intestinal integrity and post-absorptive energetics that can
inhibit wellbeing and be fatal. Therefore, our objectives were to examine how acute heat …

Endotoxin, also referred to as lipopolysaccharide (LPS), can stimulate localized or systemic
inflammation via the activation of pattern recognition receptors. Additionally, endotoxin and …

In response to antigenic stimuli, a variety of cells, including activated macrophages, secrete
cytokines that are responsible for altering the host's metabolism. Three of these cytokines …

The ideal protein concept has allowed progress in defining requirements as well as the
limiting order of amino acids in corn, soybean meal, and a corn–soybean meal mixture for …

Despite aggressive research aimed at understanding the myriad biochemical factors that are
integrated to balance energy intake and expenditure to maintain normal body weight …

According to the free drug hypothesis only the unbound drug is available to act at
physiological sites of action, and as such the importance of plasma protein binding primarily …

The objective of this study was to extract novel phenotypes related to disease resilience
using daily feed intake data from growing pigs under a multifactorial natural disease …