Effects of dietary supplementation with benzoic acid and chelated copper, zinc and manganese sources on production performance in piglets by Perić Dejan, Barea Roberto, Nešić Sladjan, Makivić Lazar, Janjić Jelena, Šefer Dragan, Marković Radmila

“…This study provides the evidence that dietary supplementation has beneficial effects on the intestinal morphology and microflora of weaned pigs, which can partly explain why growth performance of the piglets was improved.…”
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Tributyrin, a Butyrate Pro-Drug, Primes Satellite Cells for Differentiation by Altering the Epigenetic Landscape by Robert L. Murray, Wei Zhang, Jianan Liu, Jason Cooper, Alex Mitchell, Maria Buman, Jiuzhou Song, Chad H. Stahl

“…Chromatin Immunoprecipitation-Sequencing (ChIP-Seq) analysis of SC isolated from tributyrin treated pigs showed a global reduction of the tri-methylation of lysine 27 of histone H3 (H3K27me3) repressive chromatin mark. …”
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Molecular epidemiological study of clinical cases of acute hepatitis E in Belarus by Vladimir V. Davydov, Sergey V. Zhavoronok, Tatyana V. Znovets, Vladimir M. Tsyrkunov, Andrei S. Babenkа, Svetlana I. Marchuk, Elena L. Gasich, Tatiana P. Novik, Galina I. Alatortseva, Mikhail I. Mikhailov, Vitaly V. Zverev

“…The HEV sequence isolated from a pregnant woman who had an epidemiological episode of alimentary contact with raw pork meat is clustered into a common phylogenetic clade with HEV sequence obtained from the patient from Belarus with a history of kidney transplantation and HEV sequences isolated from a domestic pigs. The HEV sequence isolated from a patient with a history of travel to Pakistan belongs to the HEV genotype 1 and joins a clade of HEV sequences isolated in Pakistan, India, Nepal and Mongolia.…”
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LIS1, a glyco-humanized swine polyclonal anti-lymphocyte globulin, as a novel induction treatment in solid organ transplantation by Juliette Rousse, Pierre-Joseph Royer, Gwénaëlle Evanno, Elsa Lheriteau, Carine Ciron, Apolline Salama, Françoise Shneiker, Roberto Duchi, Andrea Perota, Cesare Galli, Emmanuele Cozzi, Gilles Blancho, Odile Duvaux, Sophie Brouard, Jean-Paul Soulillou, Jean-Marie Bach, Bernard Vanhove

“…We investigated here the in vitro and in vivo activity of LIS1, a glyco-humanized ALG (GH-ALG) produced in pigs knocked out for the two major xeno-antigens αGal and Neu5Gc. …”
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Application of a maximal-clique based community detection algorithm to gut microbiome data reveals driver microbes during influenza A virus infection by Anirban Bhar, Laurin Christopher Gierse, Alexander Meene, Haitao Wang, Claudia Karte, Theresa Schwaiger, Charlotte Schröder, Thomas C. Mettenleiter, Tim Urich, Katharina Riedel, Lars Kaderali

“…Moreover, we applied our algorithm to gut microbiome data derived from fecal samples of both healthy and IAV-infected pigs over a sequence of time-points. The results we obtained from the real-life IAV dataset unveil the role of the microbial families Ruminococcaceae, Lachnospiraceae, Spirochaetaceae and Prevotellaceae in the gut microbiome of the IAV-infected cohort. …”
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Robust predictive control for respiratory CO2 gas removal in closed-loop mechanical ventilation: An in-silico study by Schmal Matthias, Haueisen Jens, Männel Georg, Rostalski Philipp, Kircher Michael, Bluth Thomas, Gama de Abreu Marcelo, Stender Birgit

“…The underlying preclinical data were collected from 12 pigs in presence of severe changes in hemodynamic and pulmonary condition. …”
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A quadruple fluorescence quantitative PCR method for the identification of wild strains of african swine fever and gene-deficient strains by Xuezhi Zuo, Guorui Peng, Yingju Xia, Lu Xu, Qizu Zhao, Yuanyuan Zhu, Cheng Wang, Yebing Liu, Junjie Zhao, Haidong Wang, Xingqi Zou

“…This acute and highly virulent infectious disease affects domestic pigs. The World Organization for Animal Health has listed it as a statutory reportable disease, and China has listed it as a category A infectious disease. …”
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Spread of Toxoplasma gondii among animals and humans in Northern Italy: A retrospective analysis in a One-Health framework by F.M. Dini, S. Morselli, A. Marangoni, R. Taddei, G. Maioli, G. Roncarati, A. Balboni, F. Dondi, F. Lunetta, R. Galuppi

“…Most relevant seropositivity rates observed in animals were 15.5% (wild boar), 25% (roe deer), 18.7% (goat), 29.9% (sheep), 9.7% (pigs), 42.9% and 21.8% in cat and dog, respectively. …”
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<i>N</i>-2-Hydroxypropyl Trimethyl Ammonium Chloride Chitosan as Adjuvant Enhances the Immunogenicity of a VP2 Subunit Vaccine against Porcine <i>Parvovirus</i> Infection in Sows by Kai Zhao, Yuan Gao, Gaowei Hu, Lei Wang, Shangjin Cui, Zheng Jin

“…Porcine <i>parvovirus</i> (PPV) is the most important infectious agent causing infertility in pigs, which can be prevented by routine vaccination. …”
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Vascular Response to Experimental Stent Malapposition and Under-Expansion by Bailey, Lynn, Markham, Peter, Costa, Marco, Ware, James, O'Brien, Caroline C., Lopes Jr, Augusto Celso de Araujo, Kolandaivelu, Kumaran, Kunio, Mie, Brown, Jonathan, Kolachalama, Vijaya Bhasker, Conway, Claire, Edelman, Elazer R

“…Thirteen stents were implanted in coronary arteries of seven healthy Yorkshire pigs, using specially-designed cuffed balloons inducing controlled stent malapposition and under-expansion. …”
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Determinants of Glycan Receptor Specificity of H2N2 Influenza A Virus Hemagglutinin by Viswanathan, Karthik, Koh, Xiaoying, Chandrasekaran, Aarthi, Pappas, Claudia, Raman, Rahul, Srinivasan, Aravind, Tumpey, Terrence M., Sasisekharan, Ram, Shriver, Zachary H.

“…Strains of H2 subtype still continue to circulate in birds and occasionally pigs and could be reintroduced into the human population through antigenic drift or shift. …”
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Delivery Site of Perivascular Endothelial Cell Matrices Determines Control of Stenosis in a Porcine Femoral Stent Model by Nugent, Helen M., Ng, Yin-Shan, White, Desmond, Groothuis, Adam R., Kanner, Glenn, Edelman, Elazer R.

“…MATERIALS AND METHODS: Stents were implanted in the femoral arteries of 30 pigs followed by perivascular implantation of sponges or injection of particles containing allogeneic endothelial cells. …”
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Dietary lecithin decreases skeletal muscle COL1A1 and COL3A1 gene expression in finisher gilts by Akit, Henny, Collins, Cherie, Fahri, Fahri T., Hung, Alex, D'Souza , Darryl Nicholas, Leury, Brian J., Dunshea, Frank Rowland

“…Decreased matrix metalloproteinase-1 (MMP-1) mRNA expression may reflect a positive regulatory response to the reduced collagen synthesis in muscle from the pigs fed lecithin (p = 0.035). Lecithin had no effect on tissue inhibitor metalloproteinase-1 (TIMP-1), matrix metalloproteinase-13 (MMP-13) and lysyl oxidase mRNA expression. …”
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Oil pipeline wax deposition inhibition using chemical methods by Norseri, Mohd Mustaffa

“…The deposited wax is normally being removed using pigging process. In the present work, chemical method is introduced as an alternative solution for the wax deposition problems in pipelines. …”
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Novel SNPs of the porcine TRIP12 are associated with water holding capacity of meat by H.T.P. Loan, E. Murani, S. Maak, S. Ponsuksili, K. Wimmers

“…This study aims to identify polymorphisms of the TRIP12 gene and to evaluate the relationship between genotype, transcript abundance, and meat quality traits in pigs. Two synonymous SNPs (XM_003484315.1:c.2211T&gt;C, c.4957A&gt;C) were identified that segregated among animals of herds of the breed German Landrace (DL, n = 269) and the commercial crossbreed of Pietrain × (German Large White × German Landrace) (PiF1, n = 300). …”
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Paradoxical Exception to Island Tameness: Increased Defensiveness in an Insular Population of Rattlesnakes by William K. Hayes, Carl E. Person, Gerad A. Fox, Julie L. King, Erick Briggs, Eric C. K. Gren

“…However, historical estimates confirmed that populations of foxes and introduced mammalian predators (cats and pigs) and antagonists (herbivorous ungulates) substantially exceeded those on the mainland in recent centuries, and therefore best explain the paradoxically exaggerated defensive behaviors exhibited by Catalina’s rattlesnakes. …”
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Lassa Virus Vaccine Candidate ML29 Generates Truncated Viral RNAs Which Contribute to Interfering Activity and Attenuation by Dylan M. Johnson, Beatrice Cubitt, Tia L. Pfeffer, Juan Carlos de la Torre, Igor S. Lukashevich

“…In addition, we found that DIP-enriched ML29 was highly attenuated in immunocompetent CBA/J mice and in Hartley guinea pigs. Likewise, STAT-1^-/- mice, a validated small animal model for human LF associated hearing loss sequelae, infected with DIP-enriched ML29 did not exhibit any hearing abnormalities throughout the observation period (62 days).…”
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Contrasting Treatment- and Farm-Level Metrics of Antimicrobial Use Based on Used Daily Dose vs. Defined Daily Dose for the German Antibiotics Minimization Concept by Matthias Flor, Bernd-Alois Tenhagen, Annemarie Käsbohrer, Annemarie Käsbohrer

“…The German Antibiotics Minimization Concept defines a farm-level benchmarking process based on half-yearly treatment frequencies that applies to six animal populations for fattening: calves (≤ 8 months), cattle (&gt; 8 months), piglets (≤ 30 kg), pigs (&gt; 30 kg), broiler chickens, and turkeys. …”
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Safety and efficacy of a feed additive consisting of an essential oil from the seeds of Myristica fragrans Houtt. (nutmeg oil) for all animal species (FEFANA asbl) by EFSA Panel on Additives and Products or Substances used in Animal Feed (FEEDAP), Vasileios Bampidis, Giovanna Azimonti, Maria de Lourdes Bastos, Henrik Christensen, Mojca Durjava, Maryline Kouba, Marta López‐Alonso, Secundino López Puente, Francesca Marcon, Baltasar Mayo, Alena Pechová, Mariana Petkova, Fernando Ramos, Yolanda Sanz, Roberto Edoardo Villa, Ruud Woutersen, Paul Brantom, Andrew Chesson, Josef Schlatter, Johannes Westendorf, Paola Manini, Birgit Dusemund

“…For short‐living animals, the Panel had no safety concern when the additive is used at the maximum proposed use level of 10 mg/kg for veal calves, cattle for fattening, sheep/goats, horses for meat production, and salmon and for the other species, at 3.3 mg/kg for turkeys for fattening, 2.8 mg/kg chickens for fattening, 5.0 mg/kg for piglets, 6.0 mg/kg for pigs for fattening and 4.4 mg/kg for rabbits for meat production. …”
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Point-of-Care Testing for Sensitive Detection of the African Swine Fever Virus Genome by Ahmed Elnagar, Sandra Blome, Martin Beer, Bernd Hoffmann

“…African swine fever (ASF) is a contagious viral hemorrhagic disease that affects domestic pigs and wild boar. The disease is notifiable to the World Organization of Animal Health (WOAH), and causes significant deaths and economic losses. …”
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