ArticleFrontiers in physiology2022
Dietary L-citrulline modulates the growth performance, amino acid profile, and the growth hormone/insulin-like growth factor axis in broilers exposed to high temperature.
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- Global trends and research frontiers on heat stress in poultry from 2000 to 2021: A bibliometric analysis.Frontiers in physiology · 2023Pooled it
- The Effects of Arginine, Guanidinoacetic Acid and Citrulline Supplementation to Reduced Protein Diets for Aged Laying Hens.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2026Article
- Respiratory efficiency and thermoregulatory responses of L-citrulline-supplemented broiler chickens under acute and chronic stress conditions.Frontiers in physiology · 2026Article
- Growth hormone: lessons from chickens.Frontiers in physiology · 2025Article
- Comparative Analysis of Myofiber Characteristics, Shear Force, and Amino Acid Contents in Slow- and Fast-Growing Broilers.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Chicken pituitary transcriptomic responses to acute heat stress.Molecular biology reports · 2023Article
- Effects of dietary L-Citrulline supplementation on growth performance, meat quality, and fecal microbial composition in finishing pigs.Frontiers in microbiology · 2023Article
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Abstract
Heat stress adversely affects the growth performance, muscle development, and protein metabolism in poultry. l-Citrulline (L-Cit), is a non-essential amino acid that is known to stimulate muscle protein synthesis under stress conditions. This study investigated whether L-Cit could influence the growth performance, amino acid profile, and protein metabolism in broilers exposed to high ambient temperature. In a 2 × 2 factorial arrangement, Arbor acre broilers (288 chickens) were fed with basal diet (CON) or 1% L-Cit supplemented diet and later subjected to either thermoneutral (TNZ: 24°C, 24 h/d) or heat stress (HS: 35°C for 8 h/d) environment for 21 days. The results showed that L-Cit diet promoted the body weight and body weight gain of broilers higher than the CON diet, and it further alleviated HS suppression of body weight and feed intake at certain periods (
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