Impact of Nutritional Strategies on Weaned Pigs’ Growth Performance and Systemic and Intestinal Health
A special issue of Veterinary Sciences (ISSN 2306-7381). This special issue belongs to the section "Nutritional and Metabolic Diseases in Veterinary Medicine".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 5 September 2024 | Viewed by 5903
Special Issue Editors
Interests: pig nutrition; gut health; immunology; functional feed additives; weaning stress
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to invite you to contribute to this Special Issue. There is growing interest in the nutritional modulation of growth performance, intestinal health and immunity in piglets to overcome weaning stress. Postweaning diarrhea leads to serious economic loss in the swine industry as it causes increased mortality and morbidity and reduced growth in surviving pigs. Nutritional strategies, such as providing pigs with feed that is low in protein or dietary fiber or that contains bioactive compounds with anti-inflammatory, antioxidative and anti-bacterial properties, can impact the systemic and intestinal health of weaned piglets and consequently improve their growth performance. The purpose of this Special Issue is to present current knowledge of and recent progress in the modulation of growth and health in weaned piglets using nutritional strategies and bioactive compounds, and to highlight how they regulate nutrient metabolism in the host. In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Antioxidant capacity;
- Bioactive compounds;
- Intestinal inflammation;
- Metabolites;
- Molecular nutrition;
- Nutritional strategies;
- Piglets;
- Systemic health;
- Weaning stress.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Xianren Jiang
Dr. Vera Perricone
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- antioxidant capacity
- bioactive compounds
- intestinal inflammation
- metabolites
- molecular nutrition
- nutritional strategies
- piglets
- systemic health
- weaning stress