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ArticleFrontiers in microbiology2021

Dietary Tributyrin Administration Improves Intestinal Morphology and Selected Bacterial and Short-Chain Fatty Acid Profiles in Broilers Under an Isocaloric Feeding Regime.

Qunbing Hu, Fugui Yin, Baocheng Li, Yuming Guo, Yulong Yin

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Article in Frontiers in microbiology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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13citing papers in PubMed
1.3field-weighted citation impact, top 22% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

13 citing papers in PubMed, 17 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Qunbing HuState Key Laboratory of Animal Nutrition, College of Animal Science and Technology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China.
Fugui YinInstitute of Subtropical Agriculture, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changsha, China.
Baocheng LiHubei Horwath Biotechnology Co., Ltd., Xianning, China.
Yuming GuoState Key Laboratory of Animal Nutrition, College of Animal Science and Technology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China.
Yulong YinInstitute of Subtropical Agriculture, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changsha, China.
Chinese Academy of Sciences · CNChina Agricultural University · CNHubei University of Science and Technology · CNInstitute of Subtropical Agriculture · CN

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The current study was conducted to investigate the effect of dietary tributyrin (TB) administration on the intestinal and growth performances in Arbor Acres (AA) broilers under an isocaloric feeding regime. A total of 540 day-old healthy AA broilers were randomly assigned to five treatments with 12 replicates (pens) per treatment and nine birds per pen for 42 days. The dietary treatments were basal diet (control) and basal diet with TB at doses of 0.23 g/kg (TB1), 0.46 g/kg (TB2), 0.92 g/kg (TB3), and 1.84 g/kg (TB4). Particularly, to achieve the isocaloric and cost-saving experimental diets, soybean oil was replaced by the TB product (Eucalorie

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broilergrowth performanceintestinal bacterial populationintestinal morphologyintestinal short-chain fatty acidstributyrin

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PMID34421875
PMCPMC8371336
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