Weaning is a critical event in the pig's life cycle, frequently associated with severe enteric
infections and overuse of antibiotics; this raises serious economic and public health …

Weaning imposes simultaneous stress, resulting in reduced feed intake, and growth rate,
and increased morbidity and mortality of weaned pigs. Weaning impairs the intestinal …

Background Despite recent advances in the understanding of the swine gut microbiome at
different growth stages, a comprehensive longitudinal study of the lifetime (birth to market) …

The aim of this paper is to review the most relevant findings obtained over the last four years
on the physiology, microbiology and immunology of the gastrointestinal tract of pigs as …

During recent years the impact of microbial communities on the health of their host (being
plants, fish, and terrestrial animals including humans) has received increasing attention. The …

Simple Summary Weaning is a very stressful period in the piglet's life in intensive farming: it
is a sudden process occurring between three to four weeks of age, when the gastrointestinal …

The objective of this study was to investigate the morphological development of the small
intestine of African ostrich chicks and to examine the changes in the number of goblet cells …

In this study, the influence of the probiotics, Pediococcus acidilactici (PA) and
Saccharomyces cerevisiae boulardii (SCB), on intestinal immune traits and resistance to …

Simple Summary The beneficial and functional roles of the gut microbiota in maintaining
host health are becoming clearer. In general, the swine intestinal bacterial population is …

This study was conducted to determine the effect of dietary supplementation of a low dose of
chito-oligosaccharide (COS) on intestinal morphology, immune response, antioxidant …