circRNA_8521 promotes Senecavirus A infection by sponging miRNA-324 to regulate LC3A by Xiwang Yang, Rui Liu, Yunsha Du, Caiqiu Mei, Guangneng Zhang, Chen Wang, Yijun Yang, Zhiwen Xu, Wenting Li, Xiao Liu

“…Abstract Senecavirus A (SVA) causes outbreaks of vesicular disease in pigs, which imposes a considerable economic burden on the pork industry. …”
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Welfare Assessment in Calves Fattened According to the “Outdoor Veal Calf” Concept and in Conventional Veal Fattening Operations in Switzerland by Lara Moser, Jens Becker, Gertraud Schüpbach-Regula, Sarah Kiener, Sereina Grieder, Nina Keil, Edna Hillmann, Adrian Steiner, Mireille Meylan

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Does the Act of Copulation per se, without Considering Seminal Deposition, Change the Expression of Genes in the Porcine Female Genital Tract? by Manuel Alvarez-Rodriguez, Cristina A. Martinez, Dominic Wright, Heriberto Rodriguez-Martinez

“…Semen—through its specific sperm and seminal plasma (SP) constituents—induces changes of gene expression in the internal genital tract of pigs, particularly in the functional sperm reservoir at the utero-tubal junction (UTJ). …”
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Phylodynamic Analysis Suggests That Deer Species May Be a True Reservoir for Hepatitis E Virus Genotypes 3 and 4 by Anastasia A. Karlsen, Vera S. Kichatova, Karen K. Kyuregyan, Mikhail I. Mikhailov

“…Hepatitis E virus (HEV) genotypes 3 and 4 (HEV-3 and HEV-4) cause zoonotic infection in humans, with domestic pigs and wild boars being the main reservoirs of infection. …”
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Carotid Artery Vascular Mechanics Serve as Biomarkers of Cognitive Dysfunction in Aortic‐Banded Miniature Swine That Can Be Treated With an Exercise Intervention by T. Dylan Olver, Diana Klakotskaia, Brian S. Ferguson, Jessica A. Hiemstra, Todd R. Schachtman, M. Harold Laughlin, Craig A. Emter

“…Methods and ResultsYucatan pigs aged 8 months were divided into 3 groups: control (n=7), aortic‐banded sedentary (n=7), and aortic‐banded exercise trained (n=7). …”
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Characterisation of Early Microbial Colonisers within the Spiral Colon of Pre- and Post-Natal Piglets by Tanya L. Nowland, Roy N. Kirkwood, Valeria A. Torok, Kate J. Plush, Mary D. Barton

“…The results indicate that microbial colonisation of the spiral colon had occurred in stillborn pigs, suggesting microbial exposure prior to birth. …”
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Identification and interspecies characterization of UDP-glucuronosyltransferase isoforms catalyzing acacetin glucuronidation using recombinant UGT enzymes and microsomes by Kangle Shi, Shan Li, Qinggang Meng

“…Acacetin-7-O-glucuronide formation exhibited clear substrate inhibition kinetics when combined with recombinant UGTs or with liver/intestinal microsomes derived from humans, monkeys, rats, mice, dogs, or pigs. Intrinsic metabolic clearance values of human intestinal microsomes were two-fold greater than those of human liver microsomes. …”
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A Systematic review on Prevalence, Serotypes and Antibiotic resistance of Salmonella in Ethiopia, 2010–2022 by Kahsay AG, Dejene TA, Kassaye E

“…The highest prevalence was among pigs (41.6%). S. Anatum in animals and S. Typhimurium in people were the predominant serotypes. …”
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Tissue alkaline phosphatase activity and expression in an experimental infant swine model of cardiopulmonary bypass with deep hypothermic circulatory arrest by Ludmila Khailova, Justin Robison, James Jaggers, Richard Ing, Scott Lawson, Amy Treece, Danielle Soranno, Suzanne Osorio Lujan, Jesse A. Davidson

“…However, the effects of cardiopulmonary bypass and bovine-intestinal alkaline phosphatase infusion on tissue-level alkaline phosphatase activity/expression are unknown. Methods Infant pigs (n = 20) underwent cardiopulmonary bypass with deep hypothermic circulatory arrest followed by four hours of intensive care. …”
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Detecting Donkey Meat Adulterated with Duck Meat by Portable Fluorescence Quantitative PCR by Tianyuan ZHU, Xinya JIAO, Shumei CHENG

“…The results showed that the method had good specificity for both donkey meat and duck meat, which could be clearly distinguished from meat from horses, pigs, goats, sika deer, cattle, chickens, and dogs. …”
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Noninvasive magnetic resonance-guided focused ultrasound for tendon disruption: an in vivo Animal study by William Chu Kwan, Imogen den Otter-Moore, Ari Partanen, Karolina Piorkowska, Adam C. Waspe, James M. Drake

“…We evaluated MRgFUS as a clinically translatable treatment modality to non-invasively disrupt in vivo porcine tendons.Material and methods In vivo Achilles tendons (n = 28) from 15–20kg Yorkshire pigs (n = 16) were randomly assigned to 4 treatment groups of 600, 900, 1200 and 1500 J. …”
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Efficient reprogramming of naïve-like induced pluripotent stem cells from porcine adipose-derived stem cells with a feeder-independent and serum-free system. by Yu Zhang, Chao Wei, Pengfei Zhang, Xia Li, Tong Liu, Yong Pu, Yunsheng Li, Zubing Cao, Hongguo Cao, Ya Liu, Xiaorong Zhang, Yunhai Zhang

“…Thus, we provided an efficient protocol for generating naïve-like piPSCs from pADSCs in a feeder-independent and serum-free system with controlled regulation of exogenous genes, which may facilitate optimization of culture media and the production of transgenic pigs.…”
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Occurrence of antibodies against Neospora caninum in sows and factors associated with infection in commercial herds in two regions of the state of Santa Catarina, Brazil by Marcio Orides da Silva, Alessandra Snak, Jessica Ceruti Reiter, Gilberto Serighelli Junior, José Cristani, Anderson Barbosa de Moura

“…The importance of the infection in pigs has not been fully elucidated. The objective of the present study was to verify the occurrence of antibodies against Neospora caninum and the possible factors associated with infection in swine herds from two regions of the state of Santa Catarina, Brazil. …”
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Developing Surgical Skill Level Classification Model Using Visual Metrics and a Gradient Boosting Algorithm by Somayeh B. Shafiei, Saeed Shadpour, James L. Mohler, Kristopher Attwood, Qian Liu, Camille Gutierrez, Mehdi Seilanian Toussi

“…Eye gaze data were recorded from 11 participants performing 4 subtasks; blunt dissection, retraction, cold dissection, and hot dissection using live pigs and the da Vinci robot. Eye gaze data were used to extract the visual metrics. …”
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Comparative analysis of the interactions of different Streptococcus suis strains with monocytes, granulocytes and the complement system in porcine blood by Haodan Zhu, Uwe Müller, Christoph Georg Baums, Sophie Öhlmann

“…Serotypes 2 and 14 are the most common zoonotic ones worldwide, whereas serotypes 2, 9, and 7 are very important in pigs in Europe. To cause invasive infections S. suis needs to enter the bloodstream. …”
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Colonic oxygen microbubbles augment systemic oxygenation and CO2 removal in a porcine smoke inhalation model of severe hypoxia by Paul A. Mountford, Premila D. Leiphrakpam, Hannah R. Weber, Andrea McCain, Robert M. Scribner, Robert T. Scribner, Ernesto M. Duarte, Jie Chen, Dragana Noe, Mark A. Borden, Keely L. Buesing

“…Juvenile female Duroc pigs (n = 6 colonic OMB, n = 6 no treatment) ranging from 39 to 51 kg in weight were exposed to smoke under general anesthesia for 2 h. …”
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I329L: A Dual Action Viral Antagonist of TLR Activation Encoded by the African Swine Fever Virus (ASFV) by Sílvia Correia, Pedro Luís Moura, Sónia Ventura, Alexandre Leitão, Robert Michael Evans Parkhouse

“…The African Swine Fever Virus (ASFV) is an economically important, large DNA virus which causes a highly contagious and frequently fatal disease in domestic pigs. Due to the acute nature of the infection and the complexity of the protective porcine anti-ASFV response, there is no accepted vaccine in use. …”
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Evaluation of a Method for Standardized Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing with <i>Mycoplasma hyorhinis</i> Field Isolates by Lisa Käbisch, Anne-Kathrin Schink, Doris Hoeltig, Jutta Verspohl, Miklós Gyuranecz, Joachim Spergser, Corinna Kehrenberg, Stefan Schwarz

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Dietary Zinc Supplemented in Organic Form Affects the Expression of Inflammatory Molecules in Swine Intestine by Ramya Lekha Medida, Ashok Kumar Sharma, Yue Guo, Lee J. Johnston, Pedro E. Urriola, Andres Gomez, Milena Saqui-Salces

“…The study aimed to identify the effect of different Zn sources on intestinal epithelial gene expression. In total, 45 pigs (9 per treatment) (77.5 ± 2.5 kg weight) were fed for 32 days, a corn-soybean meal diet without supplemented Zn (ZnR) or supplemented with 50 and 100 ppm of inorganic ZnCl₂ (Zn50 and Zn100), and amino acid-bound organic Zn sources (LQ50 and LQ100). …”
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In vitro and in vivo antimicrobial activity of cinnamaldehyde and derivatives towards the intestinal bacteria of the weaned piglet by Elout Van Liefferinge, Claudio Forte, Jeroen Degroote, Anneke Ovyn, Noémie Van Noten, Sven Mangelinckx, Joris Michiels

“…Five dietary treatments were replicated in six pens of four pigs per pen; i.e. control, cinnamaldehyde at 100 and 400 mg/kg, and 2-methoxycinnamaldehyde and 4-methoxycinnamaldehyde, both equimolar to 400 mg/kg cinnamaldehyde. …”
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