Friend or foe? Impacts of dietary xylans, xylooligosaccharides, and xylanases on intestinal health and growth performance of monogastric animals

JT Baker, ME Duarte, DM Holanda, SW Kim - Animals, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Xylan is naturally present in typical feedstuffs fed to animals and has been
shown to cause increased digesta viscosity reducing nutrient digestibility and growth …

[HTML][HTML] Multicarbohydrase enzymes for non-ruminants

HVM O'Neill, JA Smith, MR Bedford - Asian-Australasian journal of …, 2014 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The first purpose of this review is to outline some of the background information necessary to
understand the mechanisms of action of fibre-degrading enzymes in non-ruminants …

[HTML][HTML] Growth performance, nutrient utilization, and digesta characteristics in broiler chickens fed corn or wheat diets without or with supplemental xylanase

E Kiarie, LF Romero, V Ravindran - Poultry Science, 2014 - Elsevier
Efficacy of supplemental xylanase on growth performance, nutrient utilization, and digesta
characteristics in broiler chickens fed corn-or wheat-based diets was investigated. In …

[HTML][HTML] Effect of exogenous xylanase, amylase, and protease as single or combined activities on nutrient digestibility and growth performance of broilers fed corn/soy …

AM Amerah, LF Romero, A Awati, V Ravindran - Poultry science, 2017 - Elsevier
Two trials (a 42-d performance and a 21-d cohort digestibility) were conducted to evaluate
the performance and nutrient digestibility of broilers fed corn diets supplemented with …

Nutritional and functional roles of phytase and xylanase enhancing the intestinal health and growth of nursery pigs and broiler chickens

VHC Moita, SW Kim - Animals, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Feed enzymes have been widely used with the goal to improve nutrient
digestibility and growth performance of pigs. However, recent studies have shown that feed …

[HTML][HTML] Contribution of exogenous enzymes to potentiate the removal of antibiotic growth promoters in poultry production

AJ Cowieson, AM Kluenter - Animal Feed Science and Technology, 2019 - Elsevier
Removal of prophylactic in-feed antibiotics from the diets of animals that enter the human
food chain is increasing on a global basis. This removal is motivated by a range of factors …

[HTML][HTML] Arabinoxylan-oligosaccharides kick-start arabinoxylan digestion in the aging broiler

A Bautil, J Verspreet, J Buyse, P Goos, MR Bedford… - Poultry science, 2020 - Elsevier
While arabinoxylans (AX), an important dietary fiber fraction of wheat-based broiler diets, are
known for exerting antinutritional effects in the gastrointestinal (GI) tract of broilers, the …

Xylanase improves growth performance, enhances cecal short-chain fatty acids production, and increases the relative abundance of fiber fermenting cecal microbiota …

AK Singh, RK Mandal, MR Bedford, R Jha - Animal Feed Science and …, 2021 - Elsevier
This study investigated the effects of xylanase and fiber on growth response, cecal short-
chain fatty acids (SCFA) production, and cecal microbiota diversity in broilers. A total of 180 …

Effects of supplemental xylanase on health of the small intestine in nursery pigs fed diets with corn distillers' dried grains with solubles

H Chen, S Zhang, SW Kim - Journal of Animal Science, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Forty pigs [10.7±1.2 kg initial body weight (BW) at 6 wk of age] were used in a 21-d
study to evaluate the effects of supplemental xylanase (Hostazym X 100, Huvepharma, Inc …

[HTML][HTML] Starch digestibility, energy utilization, and growth performance of broilers fed corn-soybean basal diets supplemented with enzymes

C Stefanello, SL Vieira, GO Santiago, L Kindlein… - Poultry science, 2015 - Elsevier
ABSTRACT A study was conducted to evaluate the effects of dietary α-amylase and β-
xylanase supplementation of corn-soy diets, formulated with or without supplemental …