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From Perinatal to Weaning Piglets Development: Feeding and Management Strategies
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From Perinatal to Weaning Piglets Development: Feeding and Management Strategies

A special issue of Animals (ISSN 2076-2615). This special issue belongs to the section "Animal Nutrition".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 September 2022) | Viewed by 1987

Special Issue Editor

Dr. Marco Tretola

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Guest Editor
1. Department of Health, Animal Science and Food Safety (VESPA), University of Milan, 20133 Milan, Italy
2. Agroscope, la Tioleyre 4, CH-1725 Posieux, Switzerland
Interests: pig nutrition; gut microbiota; intestinal electrophysiology; sustainability; phenolic compounds

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Intra-uterine, pre-weaning and weaning are all crucial life stages for the swine industry. Several events influencing the long-term animal health and welfare occur during the gestation and suckling periods. Targeted feeding and management strategies are needed to enure optimal health, maturity and performance of piglets at weaning stages. 

With this Special Issue, we intend to collect significant studies about dietary and management strategies applied to enhance offspring growth and health in the prenatal period and subsequent stages, together with colostrum/milk production.

To bring together the most recent findings in the strategies related to piglet health and performance, reviews and original articles from different scientific areas such as (but not limited to) animal science, immunology and microbiology are invited to this Special Issue.

Dr. Marco Tretola
Guest Editor

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Animals is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2400 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • pre-weaning
  • piglet mortality
  • pig health
  • early life nutrition
  • pig management

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Effect of Porcine Colostral Exosomes on T Cells in the Peripheral Blood of Suckling Piglets
by Hiroto Miura, Itsuki Jimbo, Machi Oda, Michiko Noguchi, Kiyonori Kawasaki, Mayuko Osada-Oka, Takamitsu Tsukahara and Ryo Inoue
Animals 2022, 12(17), 2172; https://doi.org/10.3390/ani12172172 - 24 Aug 2022
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Growing evidence indicates that porcine colostral exosomes may contribute to the healthy development of piglets. Here, we evaluated in vitro the effect of porcine milk-derived exosomes, in particular colostral exosomes, on T cells in the peripheral blood of suckling piglets. A total of [...] Read more.
Growing evidence indicates that porcine colostral exosomes may contribute to the healthy development of piglets. Here, we evaluated in vitro the effect of porcine milk-derived exosomes, in particular colostral exosomes, on T cells in the peripheral blood of suckling piglets. A total of seven sows and thirteen suckling piglets were used. Peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) from suckling piglets were cultured with or without milk-derived exosomes (control). Using flow cytometry, the proportion of each T cell subset in cultured PBMCs was analyzed three days post-incubation. PBMCs cultured with porcine colostral exosomes had a higher proportion of CD3+CD4−CD8+ T cells (cytotoxic T cells; Tc) than the control. However, exosomes induced no increase in the Tc cell population in PBMC whose endocytosis was inhibited. We further measured the concentrations of cytokines in the culture supernatant. Exosome-treated PBMCs had a higher cytokine IL-2 concentration than the control. The present study demonstrated that porcine colostral exosomes could increase the Tc cell proportion in the peripheral blood of suckling piglets, with the underlying mechanism believed to be the stimulation of IL-2 production in PBMCs via endocytosis. Moreover, our results suggested that porcine colostral exosomes were involved in the development of cellular immunity in suckling piglets. Full article
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