Exploring the Fecal Microbial Composition and Metagenomic Functional Capacities Associated With Feed Efficiency in Commercial DLY Pigs by Jianping Quan, Gengyuan Cai, Gengyuan Cai, Ming Yang, Zhonghua Zeng, Rongrong Ding, Xingwang Wang, Zhanwei Zhuang, Shenping Zhou, Shaoyun Li, Huaqiang Yang, Zicong Li, Enqin Zheng, Wen Huang, Jie Yang, Zhenfang Wu

“…In the current study, we performed a comparative analysis of the fecal microbiota in 50 commercial Duroc × (Landrace × Yorkshire) (DLY) pigs with polarizing FE using 16S rRNA gene sequencing and shotgun metagenomic sequencing. …”
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Effects of the Supplementation of Essential Oil Mixtures on Growth Performance, Nutrient Digestibility, Immune Status and Microbial Community in Weaned Piglets by Yingying Li, Hongrui Cao, Shuya Zhang, Pengfei Guo, Junmei Zhao, Drangon Zhang, Shuai Zhang

“…A total of 240 weaned piglets (Duroc × Landrace × Yorkshire) with an average body weight of 8.85 ± 0.21 kg were randomly allocated to 30 pens (6 pens per diet, 4 males and 4 females per pen). …”
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Maternal cholecalciferol supplementation during gestation improves antioxidant capacities in gilts and piglets by Lianpeng Zhao, Zhengyu Mao, Daolin Mou, Long Huang, Min Yang, Dajing Ding, Hui Yan, Zhengfeng Fang, Lianqiang Che, Yong Zhuo, Xuemei Jiang, Shengyu Xu, Yan Lin, Jian Li, Chao Huang, Yuanfeng Zou, Lixia Li, De Wu, Bin Feng

“…Twenty-three Landrace × Yorkshire gilts were randomly allocated into two groups and fed on one of the following two diets during gestation: control diet or D3 supplemented diet. …”
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Effects of Dietary Zinc Sources on Growth Performance and Gut Health of Weaned Piglets by Hui Diao, Jiayou Yan, Shuwei Li, Shuwei Li, Shengyao Kuang, Xiaolan Wei, Mengjia Zhou, Jinxiu Zhang, Chongbo Huang, Peng He, Wenjie Tang

“…In total, 96 Duroc × Landrace × Yorkshire (DLY) weaned piglets with an initial average body weight of 8.81±0.42kg were divided into four groups, with six replicates per treatment and four pigs per replicate. …”
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Effects of Early Intervention With Maternal Fecal Bacteria and Antibiotics on Liver Metabolome and Transcription in Neonatal Pigs by Jia-Jia Wan, Jia-Jia Wan, Chun-Hui Lin, Chun-Hui Lin, Er-Du Ren, Er-Du Ren, Yong Su, Yong Su, Wei-Yun Zhu, Wei-Yun Zhu

“…Five litters of Duroc × Landrace × Yorkshire neonatal piglets were used as five replicates and nine piglets in each litter were randomly assigned to the control (CO), AM or FMT groups. …”
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Effects of Dietary Amylose—Amylopectin Ratio on Growth Performance and Intestinal Digestive and Absorptive Function in Weaned Piglet Response to Lipopolysaccharide by Min Wang, Can Yang, Qiye Wang, Jianzhong Li, Yali Li, Xueqin Ding, Pengfei Huang, Huansheng Yang, Yulong Yin

“…Sixty 21 days-old piglets (Landrace × Yorkshire; 6.504 ± 0.079) were randomly assigned based on their body weight (BW) and litters of origins to five groups with experimental diets with an AAR of 0.00, 0.20, 0.40, 0.60, or 0.80 (namely, the 0.00, 0.20, 0.40, and 0.80 groups), respectively. …”
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Preschoolers in the Playground: a pilot cluster randomised controlled trial of a physical activity intervention for children aged 18 months to 4 years by Sally E Barber, Shaheen Akhtar, Cath Jackson, Daniel D Bingham, Catherine Hewitt, Ash Routen, Gerry Richardson, Hannah Ainsworth, Helen J Moore, Carolyn D Summerbell, Kate E Pickett, Claire O’Malley, Shirley Brierley, John Wright

“…Setting: Bradford, West Yorkshire, UK. Participants: Children aged from 18 months to 4 years. …”
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RECREATE: a study protocol for a multicentre pilot cluster randomised controlled trial (cRCT) in UK stroke services evaluating an intervention to reduce sedentary behaviour in stro... by Anita Patel, Rebecca Lawton, Coralie English, Amanda Farrin, Bethan Copsey, Claire F Fitzsimons, Anne Forster, Gillian Mead, Karen Birch, Ivana Holloway, Claire Fitzsimons, Louisa-Jane Burton, Rosemary Shannon, Gillian Carter, Judith Horrocks, Nahel Yaziji, Jessica Faye Johansson, Seline Ozer, Lauren A Moreau, Alison Fergusson, Jennifer Airlie, Florence Day, Laura Marsden, Lauren Moreau

“…The process evaluation will provide valuable information on intervention fidelity, acceptability and how it can be optimised.Ethics and dissemination The study has been approved by Yorkshire and The Humber – Bradford-Leeds Research Ethics Committee (Ref: 19/YH/0403). …”
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Effects of a Novel Protease on Growth Performance, Nutrient Digestibility and Intestinal Health in Weaned Piglets by Qingqing Zhu, Yuxin Wang, Yanjie Liu, Bing Yu, Jun He, Ping Zheng, Xiangbing Mao, Zhiqing Huang, Junqiu Luo, Yuheng Luo, Hui Yan, Jie Yu

“…A total of 96 weaned piglets (Duroc × Landrace × Yorkshire, 28 d of age, initial average BW = 6.55 ± 0.17 kg) were divided into four groups (4 pigs/pen and 6 replicates/group) according to a completely random block design. …”
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Facial nerve stimulation in normal pigs and healthy human volunteers: transitional development of a medical device for the emergency treatment of ischemic stroke by Olivia Sanchez, Andrea García, Fernando Castro-Prado, Miriam Perez, Rafael Lara-Estrada, Martin Ramirez-Meza, Montserrat Godinez, Michael L. Coco, Joaquín Azpiroz, Mark K. Borsody, Emilio Sacristán

“…Methods Initial experiments in anesthetized Yorkshire pigs were undertaken in order to identify the lowest stimulus power and duration that increase CBF. …”
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Genome-wide association study reveals a quantitative trait locus and two candidate genes on Sus scrofa chromosome 5 affecting intramuscular fat content in Suhuai pigs by B.B. Wang, L.M. Hou, W.D. Zhou, H. Liu, W. Tao, W.J. Wu, P.P. Niu, Z.P. Zhang, J. Zhou, Q. Li, R.H. Huang, P.H. Li

“…Meanwhile, the lead SNP was also significantly associated (rs81302978) with IFC (P < 0.05) in 378 commercial hybrid pigs (Pietrain × Duroc) × (Landrace × Yorkshire) (PDLY), and the PVE was 1.38%. Besides, two lipid metabolism-relevant candidate genes, the leucine rich repeat kinase 2 (LRRK2) and PDZ domain containing ring finger 4 (PDZRN4) were identified in the 2.27 Mb region on SSC5. …”
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Effects of canagliflozin on myocardial microvascular density, oxidative stress, and proteomic profile by Sharif A. Sabe, Cynthia M. Xu, Mohamed Sabra, Dwight D. Harris, Mark Broadwin, Krishna G. Bellam, Debolina Banerjee, Anny Usheva, M. Ruhul Abid, Frank W. Sellke

“…The aim of this study is to determine the effects of CANA in nonischemic myocardium on coronary collateralization, oxidative stress, and other molecular pathways determined by proteomic profiling. Methods: Yorkshire swine underwent placement of an ameroid constrictor to the left circumflex artery. …”
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Choline supplementation influences ovarian follicular development by Xiaoshu Zhan, Lauren Fletcher, Serena Dingle, Enzo Baracuhy, Bingyun Wang, Lee-Anne Huber, Julang Li

“…Methods: To study the effects of choline on ovarian development, 36 female Yorkshire × Landrace pigs were fed the following four supplemented diets between 90 and 186 days of age: (1) Control (corn and soybean meal-based diet that met estimated nutrient requirements, n = 9); (2) Choline (additional 500 mg choline per 1 kg of control diet, n = 8); (3) Omega-3 (additional 5556 mg Omega-3 per 1 kg control diet by introducing fish oil); (4) Choline + Omega-3 (500 mg choline + 5556 mg Omega-3 per 1 kg control diet). …”
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Use of Procalcitonin during the First Wave of COVID-19 in the Acute NHS Hospitals: A Retrospective Observational Study by Neil Powell, Philip Howard, Martin J. Llewelyn, Tamas Szakmany, Mahableswhar Albur, Stuart E Bond, Joanne Euden, Lucy Brookes-Howell, Paul Dark, Thomas P Hellyer, Susan Hopkins, Iain J McCullagh, Margaret Ogden, Philip Pallmann, Helena Parsons, David G Partridge, Dominick E. Shaw, Bethany Shinkins, Stacy Todd, Emma Thomas-Jones, Robert West, Enitan D Carrol, Jonathan A. T. Sandoe

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Dietary licorice flavonoids powder improves serum antioxidant capacity and immune organ inflammatory responses in weaned piglets by Shenggang Yin, Ting You, Jiayong Tang, Longqiong Wang, Gang Jia, Guangmang Liu, Gang Tian, Xiaoling Chen, Jingyi Cai, Bo Kang, Hua Zhao

“…Notably, 96 Landrace × Yorkshire × Duroc (DLY) weaned piglets were randomly allocated to four treatments with 6 replicates (4 animals per replicate) and fed with diet supplementation with 0, 50, 150, and 250 mg/kg LFP, respectively. …”
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Effects of Protease in Soybean Meal-Reduced Diets on Growth Performance, Nutrient Digestibility, and Intestinal Health of Weaned Piglets by Junhong Zhang, Chunxiang Zhou, Honglei Zou, Bin Li, Bing Yu, Jun He, Ping Zheng, Xiangbing Mao, Hui Yan, Junqiu Luo, Yuheng Luo, Jinyong Chen, Jie Yu

“…Seventy-two Duroc × Landrace × Yorkshire weaned barrows (21-day-old, 5.88 ± 0.95 kg) were randomly divided into four treatments with six replicates in each following a 2 × 2 factorial arrangement of SBM levels (0 to 14 d, 9%, 7.5%; 15 to 42 d, 20%, 18.5%) and protease (0 or 150 mg/kg) for a 42-day trial. …”
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Improving the accuracy of genomic prediction for meat quality traits using whole genome sequence data in pigs by Zhanwei Zhuang, Jie Wu, Yibin Qiu, Donglin Ruan, Rongrong Ding, Cineng Xu, Shenping Zhou, Yuling Zhang, Yiyi Liu, Fucai Ma, Jifei Yang, Ying Sun, Enqin Zheng, Ming Yang, Gengyuan Cai, Jie Yang, Zhenfang Wu

“…Results We produced WGS data (18,695,907 SNPs and 2,106,902 INDELs exceed quality control) from 1,469 sequenced Duroc × (Landrace × Yorkshire) pigs and developed a reference panel for meat quality including meat color score, marbling score, L* (lightness), a* (redness), and b* (yellowness) of genomic prediction. …”
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Protocol for Take-home naloxone In Multicentre Emergency (TIME) settings: feasibility study by Matthew Jones, Fiona Bell, Jonathan Benger, Sarah Black, Penny Buykx, Simon Dixon, Tim Driscoll, Bridie Evans, Adrian Edwards, Gordon Fuller, Steve Goodacre, Rebecca Hoskins, Jane Hughes, Ann John, Jenna Jones, Chris Moore, Fiona Sampson, Alan Watkins, Helen Snooks

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Metagenomic Characterization of Intestinal Regions in Pigs With Contrasting Feed Efficiency by Jianping Quan, Jianping Quan, Zhenfang Wu, Yong Ye, Longlong Peng, Jie Wu, Donglin Ruan, Yibin Qiu, Rongrong Ding, Xingwang Wang, Enqin Zheng, Gengyuan Cai, Wen Huang, Jie Yang

“…This study characterized the microbiomes within the intestine of FE contrasting Duroc × (Landrace × Yorkshire) (DLY) pigs with a comprehensive representation of diverse sampling sites (ileum, cecum, and colon) and a metagenomic sequencing approach. …”
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The Cenomanian-Turonian Oceanic Anoxic Event, I. Stratigraphy and distribution of organic carbon-rich beds and the marine δ13C excursion by Schlanger, S, Arthur, M, Jenkyns, H, Scholle, P

“…The main phase of the Cenomanian-Turonian OAE as exemplified by the Bonarelli Horizon in the Italian Apennines and the Black Band of Yorkshire and Humberside in England lasted less than 1 my. …”