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ReviewFood science of animal resources2023

Use of Postbiotic as Growth Promoter in Poultry Industry: A Review of Current Knowledge and Future Prospects.

Muhammad Saeed, Zoya Afzal, Fatima Afzal, Rifat Ullah Khan, Shaaban S Elnesr, Mahmoud Alagawany, Huayou Chen

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Review in Food science of animal resources, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 34 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
34citing papers in PubMed
7.1field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

34 citing papers in PubMed, 38 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 6 institutions in 4 countries.

Muhammad SaeedSchool of Life Sciences, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang 212013, China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5048-5753
Zoya AfzalDepartment of Poultry Science, Faculty of Animal Production and Technology, The Cholistan University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Bahawalpur 63100, Pakistan.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0595-819X
Fatima AfzalDepartment of Life Sciences, Sogang University, Seoul 04107, Korea.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8726-8805
Rifat Ullah KhanCollege of Veterinary Sciences, Faculty of Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Sciences, The University of Agriculture Peshawar, Peshawar 25120, Pakistan.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0924-0479
Shaaban S ElnesrDepartment of Poultry Production, Faculty of Agriculture, Fayoum University, Fayoum 63514, Egypt.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4430-1492
Mahmoud AlagawanyDepartment of Poultry, Faculty of Agriculture, Zagazig University, Zagazig 44511, Egypt.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8020-0971
Huayou ChenSchool of Life Sciences, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang 212013, China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1010-8205
Jiangsu University · CNFayoum University · EGSogang University · KRThe University of Agriculture, Peshawar · PKUniversity of Veterinary and Animal Sciences · PKZagazig University · EG

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Health-promoting preparations of inanimate microorganisms or their components are postbiotics. Since probiotics are sensitive to heat and oxygen, postbiotics are stable during industrial processing and storage. Postbiotics boost poultry growth, feed efficiency, intestinal pathogen reduction, and health, making them acceptable drivers of sustainable poultry production. It contains many important biological properties, such as immunomodulatory, antioxidant, and anti-inflammatory responses. Postbiotics revealed promising antioxidant effects due to higher concentrations of uronic acid and due to some enzyme's production of antioxidants, e.g., superoxide dismutase, glutathione peroxidase, and nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide oxidases and peroxidases. Postbiotics improve intestinal villi, increase lactic acid production, and reduce

Indexed as

antibiotic alternativesmechanism of actionpostbioticpoultry

Identifiers

PMID37969321
PMCPMC10636223
OpenAlexW4386587594

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Registered trials

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