Meeting global feed protein demand: challenge, opportunity, and strategy

SW Kim, JF Less, L Wang, T Yan, V Kiron… - Annual review of …, 2019 - annualreviews.org
Feed protein supplements are one of the most expensive and limiting feed ingredients. This
review offers a comprehensive analysis of how the expected expansion of animal …

Intestinal health of pigs upon weaning: challenges and nutritional intervention

L Zheng, ME Duarte, A Sevarolli Loftus… - Frontiers in veterinary …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The primary goal of nursery pig management is making a smooth weaning transition to
minimize weaning associated depressed growth and diseases. Weaning causes …

Synbiotic Effects of Enzyme and Probiotics on Intestinal Health and Growth of Newly Weaned Pigs Challenged With Enterotoxigenic F18+ Escherichia coli

ME Duarte, J Tyus, SW Kim - Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 2020 - frontiersin.org
This study aimed to investigate the effect of dietary supplementation with xylanase and
probiotics on growth performance and intestinal health of nursery pigs challenged with …

[HTML][HTML] Dietary supplementation of xylanase and protease on growth performance, digesta viscosity, nutrient digestibility, immune and oxidative stress status, and gut …

ME Duarte, FX Zhou, WM Dutra Jr, SW Kim - Animal Nutrition, 2019 - Elsevier
This study was to investigate the effect of dietary supplementation with xylanase and
protease on growth performance, digesta viscosity, apparent ileal digestibility (AID) of …

[HTML][HTML] Understanding intestinal health in nursery pigs and the relevant nutritional strategies

SW Kim, ME Duarte - Animal bioscience, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
In the modern pig production, pigs are weaned at early age with immature intestine. Dietary
and environmental factors challenge the intestine, specifically the jejunum, causing …

Functional roles of xylanase enhancing intestinal health and growth performance of nursery pigs by reducing the digesta viscosity and modulating the mucosa …

VHC Moita, ME Duarte, SW Kim - Journal of Animal Science, 2022 - academic.oup.com
This study was conducted to investigate the functional roles of an endo-β-1, 4-xylanase on
the intestinal health and growth performance of nursery pigs. A total of 60 pigs (21 d old …

Industrial sustainability of microbial keratinases: production and potential applications

CLA de Menezes, RC Santos, MV Santos… - World Journal of …, 2021 - Springer
Keratinases are proteolytic enzymes with a particular ability to cleave peptide bonds in
keratin, and in other proteins. Due to their broad-spectrum of activity, keratinases are …

Supplemental effects of dietary nucleotides on intestinal health and growth performance of newly weaned pigs

KB Jang, SW Kim - Journal of Animal Science, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Intestinal challenges upon weaning would increase the needs of nucleotides for enterocyte
proliferation, whereas de novo synthesis maybe insufficient. This study aimed to evaluate …

Supplemental effects of dietary lysophospholipids in lactation diets on sow performance, milk composition, gut health, and gut-associated microbiome of offspring

KB Jang, JM Purvis, SW Kim - Journal of animal science, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Dietary lysophospholipids (LPL) would influence milk composition of sows, thus positively
affect intestinal health of offspring. The objective of this study was to determine effects of …

Dose–response and functional role of whey permeate as a source of lactose and milk oligosaccharides on intestinal health and growth of nursery pigs

KB Jang, JM Purvis, SW Kim - Journal of animal science, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Two experiments were conducted to evaluate dose–response and supplemental effects of
whey permeate on growth performance and intestinal health of nursery pigs. In experiment …