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Dietary lysozyme improves growth performance and intestinal barrier function of weaned piglets

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ANIMAL NUTRITION
卷 14, 期 -, 页码 249-258

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KEAI PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.aninu.2023.06.003

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Lysozyme; Growth performance; Intestinal barrier; Intestinal flora; Weaned piglet

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This study found that lysozyme could significantly improve the growth performance and intestinal barrier function of weaned piglets. It also improved intestinal morphology and increased the expression of occludin. Additionally, lysozyme regulated the abundance and composition of intestinal flora and had anti-inflammatory effects. These findings provide an important theoretical basis for the application of lysozyme in pig production.
Lysozyme (LZ) is a purely natural, nonpolluting and nonspecific immune factor, which has beneficial effects on the healthy development of animals. In this study, the influences of LZ on the growth performance and intestinal barrier of weaned piglets were studied. A total of 48 weaned piglets (Landrace x Yorkshire, 22 d old) were randomly divided into a control group (basal diet) and a LZ group (0.1% LZ diet) for 19 d. The results showed that LZ could significantly improve the average daily gain (ADG, P < 0.05) and average daily feed intake (ADFI, P < 0.05). LZ also improved the intestinal morphology and significantly increased the expression of occludin in the jejunum (P < 0.05). In addition, LZ down-regulated the expression of interleukin-1b (IL-1b, P < 0.05) and tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha, P < 0.05), and inhibited the expression of the genes in the nuclear factor-k-gene binding (NF-kB, P < 0.05) signaling pathway. More importantly, the analysis of intestinal flora showed LZ increased the abundance of Firmicutes (P < 0.05) and the ratio of Firmicutes to Bacteroidota (P = 0.09) at the phylum level, and increased the abundance of Clostridium_sensu_stricto_1 (P < 0.05) and reduced the abundance of Olsenella and Prevotella (P < 0.05) at the genus level. In short, this study proved that LZ could effectively improve the growth performance, relieve inflammation and improve the intestinal barrier function of weaned piglets. These findings provided an important theoretical basis for the application of LZ in pig production. (c) 2023 The Authors. Publishing services by Elsevier B.V. on behalf of KeAi Communications Co. Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/bync-nd/4.0/).

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