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ArticleJournal of animal science2021

Impact of combined α-galactosidase and xylanase enzymes on growth performance, nutrients digestibility, chyme viscosity, and enzymes activity of broilers fed corn-soybean diets.

Xingbo Liu, Kun Xing, Ran Ning, Sergi Carné, Xingqiang Wu, Wei Nie

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Article in Journal of animal science, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

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6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Xingbo LiuNational Key Laboratory of Animal Nutrition, College of Animal Science, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100091, China.
Kun XingNational Key Laboratory of Animal Nutrition, College of Animal Science, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100091, China.
Ran NingNational Key Laboratory of Animal Nutrition, College of Animal Science, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100091, China.
Sergi CarnéIndustrial Técnica Pecuaria S.A. (ITPSA), Barcelona 08011, Spain.
Xingqiang WuIndustrial Técnica Pecuaria S.A. (ITPSA), Barcelona 08011, Spain.
Wei NieNational Key Laboratory of Animal Nutrition, College of Animal Science, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100091, China.
China Agricultural University · CN

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Two experiments were conducted to investigate the effects of a combined α-galactosidase and xylanase preparation on nutrients digestibility and growth performance in broiler chickens. Experiment 1 had 240 broilers allocated to 3 treatments with the dietary supplementation of 0, 300, and 500 g/t of the enzyme combination. Diet and amino acid (AA) digestibility were assessed. Experiment 2 was a 2 × 3 (enzyme × diet) factorial arrangement with 10 replicates of 12 male broilers per replicate. Diets were based on corn-soybean meal (SBM) diet and had 3 nutritional levels (normal, 2% apparent metabolizable energy (AME) and crude protein (CP) reduction, and 4% AME and CP reduction). Each of these diets was fed with or without enzyme supplementation. Growth performance, chyme viscosity, nutrients digestibility, and endogenous enzymes activity were assessed. In experiment 1, enzyme supplementation improved the digestibility of Ca (P = 0.025) and ileal digestibility of total AA, Pro, Alu, Ile, Lys, His, Thr, Glu, Val, Leu, Tyr, and Phe (P < 0.05), and also tended to increase the AME of diets (P < 0.10). In experiment 2, broilers fed the corn-SBM diet with 4% nutrient reduction had better growth performance (P < 0.05), jejunal digesta viscosity at 42 d (P < 0.01), and lower digestibility of gross energy (GE; P < 0.05) when compared with those fed the normal nutrient diet. Enzyme inclusion increased digestibility of CP (P = 0.044), GE (P = 0.009), raffinose (P < 0.001) and stachyose (P < 0.001), improved average daily gain (P = 0.031), and reduced jejunal digesta viscosity at 42 d (P = 0.011). Besides, similar improvements trend in amylase, trypsin, sucrase, and maltase activity with enzyme inclusion were observed as with energy. These data support that the enzyme supplementation increased nutrients and ileal AA digestibility, improved performance and endogenous enzymes activity.

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alpha-GalactosidaseAnimal FeedChickensEndo-1,4-beta XylanasesAnimal Nutritional Physiological PhenomenaAnimalsDietDietary SupplementsDigestionGlycine maxMaleNutrientsViscosityZea maysalpha-GalactosidaseEndo-1,4-beta XylanasesNutrientsbroilersdigestibilityenergyperformancexylanaseα-galactosidase

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PMID33744922
PMCPMC8186538
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