Early weaning causes small intestinal atrophy by inhibiting the activity of intestinal stem cells: involvement of Wnt/β-catenin signaling [PDF]
Stem Cell Research & Therapy, 2023 Background Early weaning and shorter breastfeeding duration are applied by a proportion of young mothers, especially in the social spheres of poverty-stricken areas.
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Physical, Metabolic, and Microbial Rumen Development in Goat Kids: A Review on the Challenges and Strategies of Early Weaning [PDF]
Animals, 2023 The digestive system of newborn ruminant functions is similar to monogastric animals, and therefore milk flows into the abomasum instead of rumen for digestion.
Mahmoud M. Abdelsattar +5 more
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Early weaning and biological sex shape long-term immune and metabolic responses in pigs [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2023 During the early pre and postnatal life, host and environmental factors can impart a major influence on immune development, thus shaping lifelong disease resistance. Two major factors known to influence immune function and mortality in animals and people
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Early Weaning Stress Induces Intestinal Microbiota Disturbance, Mucosal Barrier Dysfunction and Inflammation Response Activation in Pigeon Squabs [PDF]
Frontiers in Microbiology, 2022 Early weaning stress has been reported to impair intestinal health in mammals. Like mammals, weaning of the pigeon squab, an altricial bird, is associated with social, environmental and dietary stress.
Qianqian Xu +5 more
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Increasing weaning age of piglets from 4 to 7 weeks reduces stress, increases post-weaning feed intake but does not improve intestinal functionality [PDF]
Animal, 2010 This study tested the hypothesis that late weaning and the availability of creep feed during the suckling period compared with early weaning, improves feed intake, decreases stress and improves the integrity of the intestinal tract.
J. van der Meulen +3 more
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Sophorolipid protects against early-weaning syndrome by improving the gut microenvironment in early-weaned piglets. [PDF]
BMC Vet Res, 2022 Abstract Background In animals, weaning stress is the first and most critical stress. Weaning can negatively affect the growth performance of animals physically, psychologically, and pathologically. Our previous studies on the HT-29 cell line and early-weaned rats demonstrated that adequate sophorolipid (SPL) supplementation in feed could ...
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Dietary protein restriction during pregnancy and/or early weaning reduces the number of goblet cells in the small and large intestines of female mice pups [PDF]
Biochemistry and Biophysics Reports, 2023 Background: It remains unclear whether goblet cell numbers in offspring are altered by maternal nutritional status and/or early weaning. Herein, using a murine model, we clarified whether a low-protein (LP) diet during pregnancy and/or early weaning ...
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Probiotic Combination of Lactiplantibacillus plantarum M1 and Limosilactobacillus reuteri K4 Alleviates Early Weaning-Induced Intestinal Injury in Lambs via Modulation of Oxidative and Inflammatory Pathways [PDF]
AntioxidantsEarly weaning in intensive lamb production improves reproductive efficiency but predisposes lambs to diarrhea, oxidative stress, and intestinal barrier dysfunction, highlighting the need for non-antibiotic strategies to protect gut health.
Qicheng Lu +8 more
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Early Weaning Inhibits Intestinal Stem Cell Expansion to Disrupt the Intestinal Integrity of Duroc Piglets via Regulating the Keap1/Nrf2 Signaling [PDF]
AntioxidantsThere are different stress resistance among different breeds of pigs. Changes in intestinal stem cells (ISCs) are still unclear among various breeds of piglets after early weaning. In the current study, Taoyuan Black and Duroc piglets were slaughtered at
Ying-Chao Qin +7 more
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Lamb growth after early weaning
California Agriculture, 1964 Early weaning results in lower lamb weaning weights and grades. However, the differences are not large and might be compensated for by the increased total weight of lamb produced per acre by increasing the number of ewes on the ranch.
D Torell, W Weir
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