SynthesisTropical animal health and production2018
Effects of heat stress on piglet production/performance parameters.
Synthesis in Tropical animal health and production, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
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Who cites it
14 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Effects of management strategies on animal welfare and productivity under heat stress: A synthesis.Frontiers in veterinary science · 2023Pooled it
- Porcine intestinal goblet cells: Guardians of mucosal immunity and barrier function.Animal nutrition (Zhongguo xu mu shou yi xue hui) · 2026Review
- Pig productive performance parameters and costs in Spain: evolution from 2015 to 2024.Porcine health management · 2026Article
- Effects of dietary mineral level and creep feed provision on lactating sows during heat stress.Tropical animal health and production · 2025Article
- Mining of candidate genes related to body size in Chinese native pig breeds based on public data.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Determining the optimal macroenvironment temperature to house lactating sows and their litters.Journal of animal science · 2025Article
- Mini review: Studying epigenomic alterations can shed light on coping and adaptive abilities during heat stress in monogastric livestock.Frontiers in genetics · 2025Review
- Alginate oligosaccharide supplementation improves boar semen quality under heat stress.Stress biology · 2024Article
- A laser-Engraved Wearable Electrochemical Sensing Patch for Heat Stress Precise Individual Management of Horse.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2024Article
- The effect of electronic cooling pads and Moringa oleifera supplementation from late gestation to weaning on sow production performance under heat stress conditions.Journal of animal science · 2024Article
- Optimization of embryonic thermal programming confirms increased liver fattening in mule ducks and changes in lipid metabolism.Frontiers in physiology · 2023Article
- Effects of Phenolic Phytogenic Feed Additives on Certain Oxidative Damage Biomarkers and the Performance of Primiparous Sows Exposed to Heat Stress under Field Conditions.Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Effects of Saccharomyces cerevisiae var. boulardii CNCM I-1079 on performance, colostrum and milk composition, and litter performance of mixed-parity sows in a tropical humid climate.Tropical animal health and production · 2022Article
- Hot environment on reproductive performance, immunoglobulins, vitamin E, and vitamin A status in sows and their progeny under commercial husbandry.Journal of animal science and technology · 2019Article
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Authors and funding
4 authors.
Funding
Abstract
Heat stress is problematic for pigs raised in tropical environments. The animal is large and has proportionally high body heat, and subcutaneous fat thickness reduces the animal's ability to thermoregulate. It is not clear how stress affects pig litter size. For this reason, we performed a meta-analysis of the effect of heat stress on pig litter size. We reviewed behavioral, endocrine, and cellular data and the signaling pathways involved in heat stress. We found that heat stress did not affect litter size or the body weight of offspring. However, heat stress was found to decrease litter body weight gain due to reductions in sow milk production. For this reason, artificial feeding of piglets may be appropriate.
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