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Stress Associated with Simulated Transport, Changes Serum Biochemistry, Postmortem Muscle Metabolism, and Meat Quality of Broilers
SIMPLE SUMMARY: The objective of this study was to investigate the effects of the transportation on broilers through the use of a vibration and motion simulation machine. Short-term transport stress induced significant physiological changes in broiler chickens. Simulation of the vibration and motion...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7459976/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32824750 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ani10081442 |
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author | Zheng, Aijuan Lin, Shumei Pirzado, Shoaib Ahmed Chen, Zhimin Chang, Wenhuan Cai, Huiyi Liu, Guohua |
author_facet | Zheng, Aijuan Lin, Shumei Pirzado, Shoaib Ahmed Chen, Zhimin Chang, Wenhuan Cai, Huiyi Liu, Guohua |
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description | SIMPLE SUMMARY: The objective of this study was to investigate the effects of the transportation on broilers through the use of a vibration and motion simulation machine. Short-term transport stress induced significant physiological changes in broiler chickens. Simulation of the vibration and motion associated transport for 2 h altered hormonal secretion and blood biochemical characteristics. However, after 4 h, the birds appear to regain homeostatic equilibrium. Despite this, the stress activated antioxidant defenses, acidified muscles and increased peroxidation, as well as decreasing the meat quality of broilers. This study supports and extends previous work that identified transportation as a major risk in relation to bird welfare and meat quality. ABSTRACT: Many factors contribute to the stress of transporting broilers from the farm to the processing plant. Using a motion simulation machine, a total of 144 male broilers were employed to determine the effect of motion, vibration, and feed withdrawal during transportation on serum biochemical parameters, postmortem muscle metabolism, and meat quality of broilers. The results indicated that transportation did not affect the activity of lactate dehydrogenase, γ-glutamyl transferase, aspartate aminotransferase, creatine kinase, and glucose in the serum, glutathione peroxidase in the breast and thigh muscle, nitric oxide synthase (NOS) in the breast, and heat stress protein 70 mRNA expression level in the liver (p > 0.05). Serum triiodothyronine, thyroxine, and insulin concentration declined with 2 h transportation (p < 0.05) and recovered with 4 h transportation (p < 0.05). NOS concentration in the thigh increased with 2 h transportation (p < 0.05) and recovered with 4 h transportation (p < 0.05). Two-hour and 4 h transportation increased the activity of superoxide dismutase in both muscles. Malondialdehyde, lactic acid, and drip loss(24 h) in both thigh and breast muscles increased, and glycogen in both muscles decreased with increasing transportation times (p < 0.05). Two-hour transportation did not influence pH(45 min) and pH(24 h) in the breast and thigh muscle, but these indexes decreased with 4 h transportation. This experiment supports and extends previous work that identified transportation as a major risk in relation to bird welfare and meat quality. |
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spelling | pubmed-74599762020-09-02 Stress Associated with Simulated Transport, Changes Serum Biochemistry, Postmortem Muscle Metabolism, and Meat Quality of Broilers Zheng, Aijuan Lin, Shumei Pirzado, Shoaib Ahmed Chen, Zhimin Chang, Wenhuan Cai, Huiyi Liu, Guohua Animals (Basel) Article SIMPLE SUMMARY: The objective of this study was to investigate the effects of the transportation on broilers through the use of a vibration and motion simulation machine. Short-term transport stress induced significant physiological changes in broiler chickens. Simulation of the vibration and motion associated transport for 2 h altered hormonal secretion and blood biochemical characteristics. However, after 4 h, the birds appear to regain homeostatic equilibrium. Despite this, the stress activated antioxidant defenses, acidified muscles and increased peroxidation, as well as decreasing the meat quality of broilers. This study supports and extends previous work that identified transportation as a major risk in relation to bird welfare and meat quality. ABSTRACT: Many factors contribute to the stress of transporting broilers from the farm to the processing plant. Using a motion simulation machine, a total of 144 male broilers were employed to determine the effect of motion, vibration, and feed withdrawal during transportation on serum biochemical parameters, postmortem muscle metabolism, and meat quality of broilers. The results indicated that transportation did not affect the activity of lactate dehydrogenase, γ-glutamyl transferase, aspartate aminotransferase, creatine kinase, and glucose in the serum, glutathione peroxidase in the breast and thigh muscle, nitric oxide synthase (NOS) in the breast, and heat stress protein 70 mRNA expression level in the liver (p > 0.05). Serum triiodothyronine, thyroxine, and insulin concentration declined with 2 h transportation (p < 0.05) and recovered with 4 h transportation (p < 0.05). NOS concentration in the thigh increased with 2 h transportation (p < 0.05) and recovered with 4 h transportation (p < 0.05). Two-hour and 4 h transportation increased the activity of superoxide dismutase in both muscles. Malondialdehyde, lactic acid, and drip loss(24 h) in both thigh and breast muscles increased, and glycogen in both muscles decreased with increasing transportation times (p < 0.05). Two-hour transportation did not influence pH(45 min) and pH(24 h) in the breast and thigh muscle, but these indexes decreased with 4 h transportation. This experiment supports and extends previous work that identified transportation as a major risk in relation to bird welfare and meat quality. MDPI 2020-08-18 /pmc/articles/PMC7459976/ /pubmed/32824750 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ani10081442 Text en © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Zheng, Aijuan Lin, Shumei Pirzado, Shoaib Ahmed Chen, Zhimin Chang, Wenhuan Cai, Huiyi Liu, Guohua Stress Associated with Simulated Transport, Changes Serum Biochemistry, Postmortem Muscle Metabolism, and Meat Quality of Broilers |
title | Stress Associated with Simulated Transport, Changes Serum Biochemistry, Postmortem Muscle Metabolism, and Meat Quality of Broilers |
title_full | Stress Associated with Simulated Transport, Changes Serum Biochemistry, Postmortem Muscle Metabolism, and Meat Quality of Broilers |
title_fullStr | Stress Associated with Simulated Transport, Changes Serum Biochemistry, Postmortem Muscle Metabolism, and Meat Quality of Broilers |
title_full_unstemmed | Stress Associated with Simulated Transport, Changes Serum Biochemistry, Postmortem Muscle Metabolism, and Meat Quality of Broilers |
title_short | Stress Associated with Simulated Transport, Changes Serum Biochemistry, Postmortem Muscle Metabolism, and Meat Quality of Broilers |
title_sort | stress associated with simulated transport, changes serum biochemistry, postmortem muscle metabolism, and meat quality of broilers |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7459976/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32824750 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ani10081442 |
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