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Effect of dietary supplementation of pyrroloquinoline quinone disodium on growth performance, meat quality and antioxidative ability of broilers
LIU Guo-qing, SUN Guang-ming, LIAO Xiu-dong, HUANG Jian-zhong, GUO Mei-jin, ZHANG Li-yang, GUO Yan-li, LU Lin, LUO Xu-gang
2020, 19 (7): 1850-1856.   DOI: 10.1016/S2095-3119(19)62851-0
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This study was conducted to investigate the effect of dietary supplementation with pyrroloquinoline quinone (PQQ) in the form of PQQ disodium (PQQ·Na2) on the growth performance, carcass traits, meat quality and antioxidative ability of broilers.  A total of 720 one-d-old Arbor Acres male broilers were randomly allocated to 1 of 6 treatments with 8 replicates of 15 birds per replicate in a completely randomized design.  Birds were fed a PQQ·Na2-unsupplemented corn-soybean meal basal diet (control) or the basal diet supplemented with 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4 or 0.5 mg PQQ·Na2 kg–1 for 42 d.  Compared with the control chicks, the chicks fed the diets supplemented with PQQ·Na2 had lower (P<0.05) feed:gain (F/G) during the grower phase and drip losses of breast muscles on day 42.  As supplemental PQQ·Na2 level increased, plasma total antioxidant capacity (T-AOC) on d 42, liver T-AOC on d 21 and heart T-AOC on d 21 and 42 increased linearly (P<0.05), but malondialdehyde concentrations in plasma, liver and heart on d 21 or 42 decreased linearly (P<0.001) or quadratically (P<0.005).  The results from the present study indicate that dietary supplemental PQQ·Na2 can improve antioxidant ability and meat quality  of broilers, and in general, it is implied that the optimal supplemental PQQ·Na2 level is 0.1 mg kg–1 of diet for broilers from 1 to 42 d of age.
 
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Manganese enhances the expression of the manganese superoxide dismutase in cultured primary chick embryonic myocardial cells
QIN Shi-zhen, LIAO Xiu-dong, LU Lin, ZHANG Li-yang, XI Lin, GUO Yan-li, LUO Xu-gang
2017, 16 (09): 2038-2046.   DOI: 10.1016/S2095-3119(16)61527-7
Abstract701)      PDF in ScienceDirect      
  In the present study, the effect of manganese (Mn) on antioxidant status and the expression of the manganese superoxide dismutase (MnSOD) gene in cultured primary myocardial cells collected from the chick embryos was investigated.  The hypothesis that Mn supplementation would enhance the expression of MnSOD in cultured primary myocardial cells of chick embryos was tested.  Eggs collected from Mn-depleted Arbor Acres laying breeder hens were incubated for 10 days and then myocardial cells were isolated and cultivated for 8 days.  The embryonic myocardial cells on day 6 were treated with Mn in the cell culture medium at different time points when the proportion of cells showing spontaneous contraction was over 95% after the 3-day primary culture.  A completely randomized design involving a 3 Mn levels (0, 0.5 and 1.0 mmol L–1)×3 incubation time points (12, 24 and 48 h) factorial arrangement of treatments (n=6) was used in the current experiment.  The results showed that MnSOD activity and mRNA expression level were induced by Mn and increased with incubation time, which supported the hypothesis that Mn would enhance the expression of the MnSOD gene, and thus might protect myocardial cells from oxidative stress during the chick embryonic development.
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