Abstracts - Nutrition

Fat firmness, but not color, is influenced by sex and dietary fat source.

Maternal low protein diet impairs prenatal myofiber formation, reducing the potential of postnatal lean growth.

Clay products may help to prevent the negative impact of diarrhea in weanling piglets.

The dietary protein content also affects the standardized ileal digestibility of most amino acids.

No negative effect on sensory quality is found in short-term frozen stored products when their PUFA content increases.

7.4 g threonine per kg covers the requirement of piglets for rapid growth and maximal N retention as well as for supporting gut barrier function.

While elongation of fatty acids takes place in the liver, transformations of saturated and monounsaturated fatty acids occur in the subcutaneous fat.

Autoclaving but not oven drying reduces the concentration and digestibility of AA in soybean meal.

Lactic-acid bacteria can modulate manure odor emissions, regardless of fermentable protein availability.

Keratinase supplementation has a positive effect on the performance of weanling piglets fed corn-soybean diets.

Short-term magnesium chelate supplementation improves water holding capacity and sensory visual assessment on pork packaged in modified atmosphere.

Maize DDGS may present a viable option to substitute a premium feed ingredient in growing–finishing pig diets.

The iodine value of one fat depot may not be a good indication of iodine value of other fat depots.

Creep feed initiated from day 5 and 10 reduce diarrhea scores in piglets and the estrus interval in sows.

High-viscous, low-fermentable dietary fibre increases the proportion of a diet that is digested in the small intestine.

A reduction in particle size and multi-enzyme supplementation are useful strategies in the post-weaning period, but not in the growing period.

Different feeding programs might be needed for barrows and gilts to optimize the production of high quality dry-cured hams.

Increased dietary ZnO could lead to an increased competition among enterobacteria and, consequently, reduce the occurrence of pathogenic E. coli strains.

80 g/kg dietary inulin may protect pigs against developing swine disentery by modifying the microbiota in the gastrointestinal tract.

An increase in intramuscular fat in pigs fed low protein diets is related to tissue-specific activation of gene expression.

Increasing dietary lysine and energy levels improves growth performance and apparent total tract digestibility of nutrients.

A mathematical model serves as a tool to study phosphorus digestibility for different feedstuffs and feeding strategies.

CLA administration to sows reduces backfat thickness loss during the lactation period and lets to higher piglet weight at weaning.

Glutamine supplementation may be useful in reducing the severity of weaning-related gastrointestinal infections.