Gastrointestinal Tract Health in Pigs – 2nd Edition
A special issue of Animals (ISSN 2076-2615). This special issue belongs to the section "Pigs".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 4 November 2024 | Viewed by 1079
Special Issue Editors
Interests: pigs; intestinal disease; intestinal integrity; intestinal immune system; vaccine; nutrition additives; piglet management
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Interests: intestinal disease; nutrition modelization; immune system activation; intestinal integrity; vaccines
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Intestinal health has become a major concern for producers and swine practitioners. In recent decades, we have continuously lost the tools required to maintain intestinal health in piglets and pigs, which has resulted in worse health status and loss of performance in pig production. The lack of vaccines, the ban on antimicrobials or zinc oxide usage, for example, have greatly contributed to this situation. Therefore, it is critical to create of knowledge to improve intestinal integrity and digestive health and to help producers to maintain the health of animals and the profitability of agribusiness related to swine production. Intestinal integrity, nutrition (formulation, modelization), microbiome, nutritional additives, probiotics and prebiotics, and vaccines are some of the topics that will be addressed in this Special Issue of Animals.
The aim of the present Special Issue is to compile some of the most recent advances in intestinal integrity and digestive health into one publication.
Considering the success of our previous Special Issue, "Gastrointestinal Tract Health in Pigs", we are pleased to launch “Gastrointestinal Tract Health in Pigs – 2nd Edition”. We welcome the submission of research articles and literature reviews.
Prof. Dr. Guillermo Ramis
Dr. Livia Mendonça Pascoal
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- intestinal integrity
- porcine enteric disease syndrome
- tight junctions
- vaccine
- microbiome
- nutrition
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- Gastrointestinal Tract Health in Pigs in Animals (17 articles)
