Dietary sodium butyrate improves female broiler breeder performance and offspring immune function by enhancing maternal intestinal barrier and microbiota

ABSTRACT: This study aimed to investigate the effects of dietary sodium butyrate (SB) supplementation on the reproductive performance of female broiler breeders under intensive rearing conditions and to analyze antioxidant capacity, immune function, and intestinal barrier function of the female bree...

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Main Authors: Chuanpi Xiao, Li Zhang, Bo Zhang, Linglian Kong, Xue Pan, Tim Goossens, Zhigang Song
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2023-06-01
Series:Poultry Science
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0032579123001815