Effects of Chinese traditional herbal medicine complex supplementation on the growth performance, immunity and serum traits of pigs
Effects of Chinese traditional herbal medicine complex supplementation on the growth performance, immunity and serum traits of pigs
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DOI:
10.1111/j.1740-0929.2011.00897.x
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发表时间:
2011-01-01
影响因子:
2
通讯作者:
Tu Fa Lien
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作者:
Yeh, Hui Shuang;Weng, Bor Chun;Tu Fa Lien
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of a traditional Chinese herbal medicine complex supplementation on the growth performance, immunity and serological traits of pigs, and the feasibility of its use as a substitute for antibiotics. Thirty-six weaned pigs LYD with average initial body weight of 10 +/- 0.55 kg were randomly divided into three treatments with three replicates. These constituted the control, the antibiotics group (chlortetracycline 100 mu g/kg, oxytetracycline 100 mu g/kg), and 0.3% Chinese herbal medicine complex group (CHM). Experiment results indicated that the CHM group exhibited significantly increased average feed intake and peripheral blood CD3+CD8+ T cell percentage as compared with those of the antibiotics group (P < 0.05). High-density lipoprotein (HDL) level was greater while low-density lipoprotein + very low-density lipoprotein (LDL + VLDL) level was lower in the CHM group than the control group (P < 0.05). The in vitro results indicated that peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) stimulated by Con-A produced a greater interleukin (IL)-6 level in the CHM group and IL-6 level stimulated by lipopolysaccharide was greater than the antibiotics groups (P < 0.05). Above all, this study has indicated that the addition of Chinese traditional herbal complex to pigs' diets has beneficial results.