Bee pollen is rich in nutrients and bioactive compounds, exhibiting properties such as antioxidant effects, immune enhancement, and promotion of growth and development. However, there are limited studies on the use of bee pollen in goose breeding. This study aimed to investigate the effects of rape bee pollen (RBP) and camellia bee pollen (CBP) on production performance, intestinal morphology, digestive enzyme activity, antioxidant and immune indices, and gut microbiota in Wanxi white goose.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBiol Trace Elem Res
August 2025
Boron (B) is a trace element that plays an important role in animal nutrition and health; however, its effects on the productive performance of Wanxi white geese remain unclear. This study aimed to evaluate the impact of dietary boron on reproductive performance, egg quality, and serum biochemical indices in Wanxi white geese during the laying period. A total of 126 one-year-old healthy geese were selected and randomly divided into three groups: 0 mg/kg B (control), 57 mg/kg B, and 114 mg/kg B supplementation in the diet.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCrude protein (CP) in diets is essential for maintaining animal health and production performance. However, the protein requirements of Wanxi white geese during the laying period are not well understood. In this study, 120 one-year-old Wanxi white geese were selected and divided into three groups based on similar body weights, namely 14% CP, 15% CP, and 16% CP, with each group consisting of 40 animals.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCurrently, porcine contagious pleuropneumonia (PCP) caused by Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae (APP), poses a significant threat to the pig breeding industry. There is an urgent need for effective therapeutic and prophylactic treatments, especially those that can overcome the limitations associated with vaccines and antibiotics. This includes the development of novel antitoxin agents, immunomodulatory therapies, and alternative strategies like phage therapy and herbal extracts.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEntropy (Basel)
February 2025
Characterized by frequent earthquakes and a dense population, Yunnan Province, China, faces significant seismic hazards and is a hot place for earthquake forecasting research. In a previous study, we evaluated the performance of the value for 5-year seismic forecasting during 2000-2019 and made a forward prediction of M ≥ 5.0 earthquakes in 2020-2024.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFRotavirus (RV) is a significant contributor to diarrhea in both young children and animals, especially in piglets, resulting in considerable economic impacts on the global pig industry. Isoleucine (Ile), a branched-chain amino acid, is crucial for regulating nutrient metabolism and has been found to help mitigate diarrhea. This study aimed to assess the impact of isoleucine supplementation in feed on colonic barrier function, colonic microbiota, and metabolism in RV-infected weanling piglets.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFRotavirus infections cause severe gastroenteritis and dehydration in young children and animals worldwide, leading to high rates of morbidity and mortality, predominantly in low- and middle-income countries. In the past decade, substantial progress has been made in the development and implementation of rotavirus vaccines, which have been essential in alleviating the global burden of this disease, not only in human being but also in livestock species like calves and piglets, where these infections can cause significant economic losses. By synthesizing the latest research and real-world evidence, this review article is designated to provide deep insights into the current state of rotavirus vaccine technology and its global implementation as well as the application of rotavirus vaccines in veterinary settings and their importance in controlling zoonotic transmission and maintaining food security.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Rotavirus (RV) is a major cause of diarrhea in young children and animals, especially piglets, leading to substantial economic losses in the global pig industry. Isoleucine (Ile), a branched-chain amino acid, plays an important role in regulating nutrient metabolism and has been shown to improve diarrhea. This study aimed to evaluate the effects of Ile supplementation on the mucosal immune barrier of the small intestine in RV-infected weaned piglets.
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December 2024
The inefficient nitrogen removal in constructed wetlands (CWs) can be attributed to insufficient carbon sources for low carbon-to-nitrogen (C/N) ratio wastewater. In this study, sugarcane bagasse fermentation liquid (SBFL) was used as a supplemental carbon source in intermittently aerated CWs to enhance nitrogen removal. The impact of different regulated influent C/N ratios on nitrogen removal and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions was investigated.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSugarcane bagasse was recycled to produce fermentation liquid (FL) as a supplementary carbon source that was added to constructed wetlands (CWs) for regulating influent carbon to nitrogen ratio (C/N), and then being applied to investigate nitrogen transformations and greenhouse gas emissions. Results showed that this FL achieved faster NO-N removal and lower NO fluxes than sucrose did, and the lowest NO flux (67.6 μg mh) was achieved when FL was added to CWs in a C/N of 3.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSci Total Environ
September 2024
Constructed wetlands (CWs) have been used to enhance pollutant removal by filling several types of material as substrates. However, research on substrate filling order remains still limited, particularly regarding the effects of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. In this study, six CWs were constructed using zeolite and ferric‑carbon micro-electrolysis (Fe-C) fillers to evaluate the effect of changing the filling order and ratio on pollutant removal, GHGs emissions, and associated microbial structure.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFStreptococcus suis (S. suis) is a significant zoonotic microorganism that causes a severe illness in both pigs and humans and is characterized by severe meningitis and septicemia. Suilysin (SLY), which is secreted by S.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEnviron Sci Pollut Res Int
November 2023
Lack of carbon source is the main limiting factor in the denitrification of low C/N ratio wastewater in the constructed wetlands (CWs). Agricultural waste has been considered as a supplementary carbon source but research is still limited. To solve this problem, ferric carbon (Fe-C) + zeolite, Fe-C + gravel, and gravel were used as substrates to build CWs in this experiment, aiming to investigate the effects of different carbon sources (rice straw, corncobs, alkali-heated corncobs) on nitrogen removal performance and microbial community structure in CWs for low C/N wastewater.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFActinobacillus pleuropneumoniae (APP) is a gram-negative pathogenic bacterium responsible for porcine contagious pleuropneumonia (PCP), which can cause porcine necrotizing and hemorrhagic pleuropneumonia. Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae-RTX-toxin (Apx) is an APP virulence factor. APP secretes a total of four Apx toxins, among which, ApxI demonstrates strong hemolytic activity and cytotoxicity, causing lysis of porcine erythrocytes and apoptosis of porcine alveolar macrophages.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFInt J Mol Sci
March 2023
Porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDV), a member of the α-coronavirus genus, can cause vomiting, diarrhea, and dehydration in piglets. Neonatal piglets infected with PEDV have a mortality rate as high as 100%. PEDV has caused substantial economic losses to the pork industry.
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May 2023
Constructed wetlands (CWs) are considered a widely used cost-effective technology for pollutant removal. However, greenhouse gas emissions are a non-negligible problem in CWs. In this study, four laboratory-scale CWs were established to evaluate the effects of gravel (CW), hematite (CW), biochar (CW), and hematite + biochar (CW) as substrates on pollutants removal, greenhouse gas emissions, and associated microbial characteristics.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntegrated electro-Fenton and forward osmosis is capable to simultaneously separate emerging contaminants and degrade accumulated ones. Thus, an understanding of how draw solution chemistry in forward osmosis influences electro-Fenton is vital for maximizing overall treatment. Therefore, this study aimed to determine the transport behavior of four trace organic contaminants (TrOCs) including Diuron, Atrazine, DEET and Sulfamethoxazole under several influencing factors.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFGlaesserella parasuis is a common bacterium in the porcine upper respiratory tract that causes severe Glasser's disease, which is characterized by polyarthritis, meningitis, and fibrinous polyserositis. TurboID is an enzyme that mediates the biotinylation of endogenous proteins that can fuse with proteins of interest to label protein interactors and local proteomes. To reveal the host proteins that interact with outer membrane protein P2 (OmpP2) by TurboID-mediated proximity labeling in immortalized porcine alveolar macrophage iPAM cells, 0.
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August 2022
The ability of bacteria to resist heat shock allows them to adapt to different environments. In addition, heat shock resistance is known for their virulence. Our previous study showed that the AI-2/luxS quorum sensing system affects the growth characteristics, biofilm formation, and virulence of .
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe lack of carbon sources severely inhibits denitrification in wastewater with a low C/N ratio. Corncob and rice straw were chosen as supplementary carbon sources to bring into the wetland system to supplement the carbon sources needed for denitrification, and the enhancing effects of the two carbon sources on nitrogen removal from the wetland were studied. The cumulative release of carbon was in the order of rice straw[(145.
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July 2022
Porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDV) could cause lethal diarrhea and dehydration in suckling piglets, which can adversely affect the development of the global swine industry. The lack of effective therapeutical and prophylactic treatment especially for PEDV variant strains underlines the importance of effective antiviral strategies, such as identification of novel antiviral agents. In the present study, the antiviral activity of cinchonine against PEDV was investigated in Vero CCL81 and LLC-PK1 cells at a non-cytotoxic concentration determined by Cell Counting Kit-8 assay .
View Article and Find Full Text PDFHuan Jing Ke Xue
April 2022
The aim of this research was to examine the effects of biochar addition (B0:0 t·hm, B20:20 t·hm, and B40:40 t·hm) and mulching (FM:film and NM:no film) on vegetables. The impact of NO emissions in the field was based on the pepper-radish rotation vegetable field system on the farm of Southwest University, using static dark box/gas chromatography to conduct in-situ observations in the field for one year. In this experiment, a total of six treatments were set up, namely NMB0 (CK) and FMB0, NMB20 and FMB20, and NMB40 and FMB40.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe type and structure of the substrate in constructed wetland affects the diversity and abundance of microorganisms, thereby influencing the effect of sewage treatment. In this study, four groups of wetlands were constructed in the greenhouse:blank-constructed wetland (CW0), hematite-constructed wetland (CW1), biochar-constructed wetland (CW2), and hematite+biochar-constructed wetland (CW3), to study the differences in sewage treatment effects, greenhouse gas emissions, and microbial community structures of constructed wetland systems under different filler substrates. The results showed that the addition of hematite or biochar increased the COD removal rate of -0.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPorcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDV) variant strains adversely affect the production of pigs globally. Vaccines derived from PEDV traditional strains impart less protection against the variant strains. Moreover, sequence diversity among different PEDV variant strains is also complicated.
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