Health Benefits of Supplementing Nursery Pig Diets with Microalgae or Fish Oil

Health Benefits of Supplementing Nursery Pig Diets with Microalgae or Fish Oil

Weaning stress can negatively impact a pig’s performance; dietary supplementation with omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (n-3 PUFA) reduces inflammatory stress and promotes nursery pig’s health and growth. Fish oil (FO) is a major source of n-3 PUFA; however, microalgae (AL) ma...

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Main Authors: Alison V. Lee, Lan You, Se-Young Oh, Ziwei Li, Alexandra Code, Cuilan Zhu, Rebecca E. Fisher-Heffernan, Timothy R. H. Regnault, Cornelis F. M. De Lange, Lee-Anne Huber, Niel A. Karrow
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2019-03-01
Series:Animals
Subjects:
microalgae
fish oil
swine nutrition
lipopolysaccharide
acute-phase response
immune response
Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/2076-2615/9/3/80

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