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Dietary muramidase improved growth performance, feed efficiency, breast meat yield, and welfare of turkeys from hatch to market [PDF]

Poultry Science, 2023
: Muramidase is an enzyme that hydrolyzes peptidoglycans of bacterial cell walls and improves performance of broilers in a dose-dependent manner. An experiment was conducted to evaluate muramidase supplementation, at a high or step-down dose, in turkeys ...
C.L. Walk, C. Alleno, R. Bouvet, J.-M. Thoby, I. Eising, P. Segobola   +5 more
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Dietary muramidase leads to the downregulation of peptidoglycan biosynthesis and to caecal microbial modulation in laying hens [PDF]

Animal Microbiome
Background In-feed muramidase enzyme has been linked to numerous advantages in several animal species. In the past years, muramidase has been shown to be effective in hydrolyzing peptidoglycan fragments, especially at small-intestine level in broilers ...
Salvatore Galgano, Murtala Umar Faruk, Irene Eising, Jos G. M. Houdijk, Farina Khattak   +4 more
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Comparative effects of dietary muramidase and phytogenics on the growth performance and gastrointestinal functionality of broiler chickens [PDF]

Poultry Science
: The objective of the present study was to compare the effectiveness of dietary supplementation of muramidase (MUR) and 2 phytogenic additives on the growth performance, intestinal morphology, bacteria load, and production of short-chain fatty acids ...
Necmettin Ceylan, Cristiano Bortoluzzi, Oguz Gunturkun, Estefania Perez-Calvo   +3 more
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Safety and efficacy of a feed additive consisting of muramidase produced with Trichoderma reesei DSM 32338 (Balancius™) for laying hens (DSM nutritional products) [PDF]

EFSA Journal
Following a request from the European Commission, EFSA was asked to deliver a scientific opinion on the safety and efficacy of muramidase produced with Trichoderma reesei DSM 32338 (Balancius™) as a feed additive for laying hens.
EFSA Panel on Additives and Products or Substances used in Animal Feed (FEEDAP), Vasileios Bampidis, Giovanna Azimonti, Maria de Lourdes Bastos, Henrik Christensen, Birgit Dusemund, Mojca Durjava, Maryline Kouba, Marta López‐Alonso, Secundino López Puente, Francesca Marcon, Baltasar Mayo, Alena Pechová, Mariana Petkova, Fernando Ramos, Roberto Edoardo Villa, Ruud Woutersen, Andrey Yurkov, Montserrat Anguita, Matteo L. Innocenti, Fabiola Pizzo, Daniel Pagés Plaza, Elisa Pettenati, Jordi Ortuño   +23 more
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Structural insights into thrombolytic activity of destabilase from medicinal leech [PDF]

Scientific Reports, 2023
Destabilase from the medical leech Hirudo medicinalis belongs to the family of i-type lysozymes. It has two different enzymatic activities: microbial cell walls destruction (muramidase activity), and dissolution of the stabilized fibrin (isopeptidase ...
Egor Marin, Daniil A. Kornilov, Sergey S. Bukhdruker, Vladimir A. Aleksenko, Valentin A. Manuvera, Egor V. Zinovev, Kirill V. Kovalev, Mikhail B. Shevtsov, Anna A. Talyzina, Pavel A. Bobrovsky, Pavel K. Kuzmichev, Alexey V. Mishin, Ivan Y. Gushchin, Vassili N. Lazarev, Valentin I. Borshchevskiy   +14 more
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Dietary eubiotics of microbial muramidase and glycan improve intestinal villi, ileum microbiota composition and production trait of broiler [PDF]

Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology
Background Optimal gut health is important to maximize growth performance and feed efficiency in broiler chickens. A total of 1,365 one-day-old male Ross 308 broiler chickens were randomly divided into 5 treatments groups with 21 replicates, 13 birds per
Sungbo Cho, Shanmugam Suresh Kumar, Santiago Ramirez, Rolando Valientes, In Ho Kim   +4 more
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A microbial muramidase improves growth performance and reduces inflammatory cell infiltration in the intestine of broilers chickens under Eimeria and Clostridium perfringens challenge [PDF]

Poultry Science
: The objective of the present studies was to evaluate muramidase (MUR) supplementation in broilers under Eimeria and/or Clostridium perfringens challenge. For this, 2 experiments were conducted. Experiment 1.
Cristiano Bortoluzzi, Leticia C. Bittencourt, Estefania Perez-Calvo, Bruna L. Belote, Igor Soares, Elizabeth Santin, José Otávio Berti Sorbara, Luiz F. Caron   +7 more
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Breaking barriers: pCF10 type 4 secretion system relies on a self-regulating muramidase to modulate the cell wall [PDF]

mBio
Conjugative type 4 secretion systems (T4SSs) are the main driver for the spread of antibiotic resistance genes and virulence factors in bacteria.
Wei-Sheng Sun, Gabriel Torrens, Josy ter Beek, Felipe Cava, Ronnie P.-A. Berntsson   +4 more
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Biopsy-proven sarcoidosis lesion of the levator palpebrae superioris causing myogenic blepharoptosis [PDF]

American Journal of Ophthalmology Case Reports
Purpose: We describe a case of myogenic blepharoptosis due to sarcoidosis directly involving the levator palpebrae superioris, confirmed with biopsy.
Kim A. Firn, Eman Hawy, Douglas J. Van Putten   +2 more
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Orally administered β-glucan improves the hemolytic activity of the complement system in horses [PDF]

Veterinary World, 2021
Background and Aim: Immune-modulating molecules mainly act on innate immune cells, which are central to early defense against invading pathogens and contribute to developing adaptive immunity. Yeast-extracted β-glucan, a model immune-modulating molecule,
Taline Scalco Picetti, Lucas de Figueiredo Soveral, Rovian Miotto, Luana Marina Scheer Erpen, Yasmin Kreutz, João Antônio Guizzo, Rafael Frandoloso, Luiz Carlos Kreutz   +7 more
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