Along with its favorable prognostic role, CLCA2 inhibits growth and metastasis of nasopharyngeal carcinoma cells via inhibition of FAK/ERK signaling by Yuan-Yuan Qiang, Chang-Zhi Li, Rui Sun, Li-Sheng Zheng, Li-Xia Peng, Jun-Ping Yang, Dong-Fang Meng, Yan-Hong Lang, Yan Mei, Ping Xie, Liang Xu, Yun Cao, Wen-Wen Wei, Li Cao, Hao Hu, Qin Yang, Dong-Hua Luo, Ying-Ying Liang, Bi-Jun Huang, Chao-Nan Qian

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The impact of Bacillus subtilis DSM32315 and L-Threonine supplementation on the amino acid composition of eggs and early post-hatch performance of ducklings by Mahmoud Mostafa Azzam, Wei Chen, Weiguang Xia, Shuang Wang, Yanan Zhang, HebatAllah Kasem El-Senousey, HebatAllah Kasem El-Senousey, Chuntian Zheng

“…A total number of 648 female 23-week-old Longyan duck breeders were assigned to a 3 × 2 factorial design with six replicates of 18 birds per replicate. …”
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Dietary non-phytate phosphorus requirements for optimal productive and reproductive performance, and egg and tibial quality in egg-type duck breeders by W.G. Xia, K. Abouelezz, X.B. Huang, K.C. Li, W. Chen, S. Wang, Y.N. Zhang, C.L. Jin, M.M.M. Azzam, C.T. Zheng

“…This study aimed to establish the NPP requirements of egg-type duck breeders aged from 54 to 80 weeks on the following traits: egg production, egg incubation, egg quality, tibial characteristics, reproductive organ, plasma indices, and the expression of genes related to phosphorus absorption. Longyan duck breeders aged 54 weeks (n = 300) were randomly allotted to five treatments, each containing six replicates of 10 individually caged birds. …”
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Dietary supplementation with 2-hydroxy-4-methyl(thio) butanoic acid and DL-methionine improves productive performance, egg quality and redox status of commercial laying ducks by Yanan Zhang, Zhiwei Zhuang, Tahir Mahmood, Yves Mercier, Yongyan Jin, Xuebing Huang, Kaichao Li, Shuang Wang, Weiguang Xia, Shenglin Wang, Miao Yu, Wei Chen, Chuntian Zheng

“…A total of 792 healthy 25-wk-old Longyan laying ducks with similar body weights were randomly allotted to 11 treatment groups. …”
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Effects of dietary substitution of peanut meal for soybean meal on egg production, egg quality, oxidative status, and yolk fatty acid profile in laying ducks by W.G. Xia, K.F.M. Abouelezz, M.N. Makled, S. Wang, W. Chen, Y.N. Zhang, A.A. Elokil, S.L. Wang, X.B. Huang, K.C. Li, C.T. Zheng

“…This study evaluated the effects of graded replacement of soybean meal (SBM) by peanut meal (PNM) on egg production, egg quality, oxidative status, and yolk fatty acid profile in laying ducks. In total, 360 Longyan ducks aged 21 weeks were allocated to five treatments, each containing six replicates of 12 birds. …”
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