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Enterococcus faecium NCIMB 10415 supplementation improves the meat quality and antioxidant capacity of muscle of broilers
- Source :
- Journal of animal physiology and animal nutrition. 103(4)
- Publication Year :
- 2018
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Abstract
- The present study was conducted to investigate the effects of Enterococcus faecium (E. faecium) on the meat quality and antioxidant capacity of muscle in broilers. A total of 600 Arbor Acre broiler chickens (1-day-old, male) were randomly divided into five treatments with six replicates (20 chickens per replicate) for each treatment. The five treatments were the control treatment (CON, basal diet), antibiotic treatment (ANT, basal diet supplemented with 0.1% chlortetracycline) and E. faecium-supplemented treatments (LEF, MEF and HEF, basal diet supplemented with 50, 100 and 200 mg/kg of E. faecium respectively). The experiment lasted 42 days in two periods of 21 days. Results showed that there were no differences in breast meat quality among different treatments (p > 0.05). Compared with the CON and ANT treatments, the yellowness of thigh meat in E. faecium-supplemented treatments was significantly increased (p < 0.05); the shear force of thigh meat in the LEF and MEF treatments was lower than that of the CON treatment (p < 0.05). In addition, the concentration of the inosine monophosphate (IMP) in the breast and thigh meat of the MEF treatment was significantly higher than that of the other treatments (p < 0.05). At 21 days, the total antioxidant capability (T-AOC) level and glutathione peroxidase (GSH-Px) activity of breast meat and superoxide dismutase (SOD) in the thigh meat of the MEF treatment were greatly increased (p < 0.05). At 42 days of age, the catalase (CAT), GSH-Px and T-AOC activities in the breast meat of the MEF treatment were increased (p < 0.05) and the CAT activity of thigh meat in the LEF and MEF treatments was increased (p < 0.05). In conclusion, E. faecium supplementation increased the meat quality of the thigh muscle, increased the IMP content and the activities of CAT, SOD, T-AOC, and GSH-Px of muscle in broilers. Supplementation with 100 mg/kg E. faecium had the greatest effects.
- Subjects :
- Chlortetracycline
Inosine monophosphate
Male
Meat
040301 veterinary sciences
Enterococcus faecium
Antioxidants
0403 veterinary science
Superoxide dismutase
Animal science
Food Animals
Inosine Monophosphate
medicine
Animals
Animal nutrition
Muscle, Skeletal
chemistry.chemical_classification
biology
Glutathione peroxidase
Probiotics
0402 animal and dairy science
Broiler
food and beverages
04 agricultural and veterinary sciences
biochemical phenomena, metabolism, and nutrition
biology.organism_classification
040201 dairy & animal science
chemistry
Catalase
biology.protein
Animal Science and Zoology
Chickens
medicine.drug
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 14390396
- Volume :
- 103
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of animal physiology and animal nutrition
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....36920d8dbcb07590c35b5af39f065b38