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Effect of dietary stevia-based sweetener on body weight and humoral immune response of broiler chickens

BACKGROUND AND AIM: Steviol glycosides extracted from the leaves of Stevia rebaudiana Bertoni have been of much consideration recently because of their beneficial effects on health, raising the possibilities for improving farm animals’ health. Although some studies on stevia’s dietary effect on body...

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Autores principales: Molina-Barrios, Ramón Miguel, Avilés-Trejo, Cielo Rubí, Puentes-Mercado, María Esthela, Cedillo-Cobián, Jesús Raymundo, Hernández-Chavez, Juan Francisco
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Publicado: Veterinary World 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8167524/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34083940
http://dx.doi.org/10.14202/vetworld.2021.913-917
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author Molina-Barrios, Ramón Miguel
Avilés-Trejo, Cielo Rubí
Puentes-Mercado, María Esthela
Cedillo-Cobián, Jesús Raymundo
Hernández-Chavez, Juan Francisco
author_facet Molina-Barrios, Ramón Miguel
Avilés-Trejo, Cielo Rubí
Puentes-Mercado, María Esthela
Cedillo-Cobián, Jesús Raymundo
Hernández-Chavez, Juan Francisco
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description BACKGROUND AND AIM: Steviol glycosides extracted from the leaves of Stevia rebaudiana Bertoni have been of much consideration recently because of their beneficial effects on health, raising the possibilities for improving farm animals’ health. Although some studies on stevia’s dietary effect on body weight gain are available, few studies have been conducted to evaluate stevioside supplementation on immune response in broilers. This experiment aimed to analyze how a stevia-based sweetener can affect broiler chickens’ growth performance and humoral response. MATERIALS AND METHODS: In this experiment, one hundred and twenty 1-day-old Cobb-line broiler chicks fed with commercial starter/grower diets were included in three groups and supplemented with stevia-based sweetener at levels 0, 80, and 160 ppm, respectively. Chickens were weighed on day 0 and every 7 days for the next 6 weeks. Chicks were then immunized on days 10 and 24 with a Newcastle and infectious bronchitis vaccine and blood sampled on days 7, 24, and 35. Serologic assays were performed to detect specific antibody levels. RESULTS: The body weight means and body weight gain on day 42 were found to be significantly higher in birds from the group fed with 80 ppm of stevia-based sweetener than those in the control group and slightly higher than those in the group supplemented with 160 ppm of stevia-based sweetener. Likewise, on day 35, antibodies against the Newcastle disease virus were higher in the treatment groups. Immune response to infectious bronchitis virus vaccination was not statistically different among the three groups through the experiment. CONCLUSION: Stevia-based sweetener at 80 ppm in commercial-based diets improved body weight gain and immune response in broiler chickens at the market age.
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spelling pubmed-81675242021-06-02 Effect of dietary stevia-based sweetener on body weight and humoral immune response of broiler chickens Molina-Barrios, Ramón Miguel Avilés-Trejo, Cielo Rubí Puentes-Mercado, María Esthela Cedillo-Cobián, Jesús Raymundo Hernández-Chavez, Juan Francisco Vet World Research Article BACKGROUND AND AIM: Steviol glycosides extracted from the leaves of Stevia rebaudiana Bertoni have been of much consideration recently because of their beneficial effects on health, raising the possibilities for improving farm animals’ health. Although some studies on stevia’s dietary effect on body weight gain are available, few studies have been conducted to evaluate stevioside supplementation on immune response in broilers. This experiment aimed to analyze how a stevia-based sweetener can affect broiler chickens’ growth performance and humoral response. MATERIALS AND METHODS: In this experiment, one hundred and twenty 1-day-old Cobb-line broiler chicks fed with commercial starter/grower diets were included in three groups and supplemented with stevia-based sweetener at levels 0, 80, and 160 ppm, respectively. Chickens were weighed on day 0 and every 7 days for the next 6 weeks. Chicks were then immunized on days 10 and 24 with a Newcastle and infectious bronchitis vaccine and blood sampled on days 7, 24, and 35. Serologic assays were performed to detect specific antibody levels. RESULTS: The body weight means and body weight gain on day 42 were found to be significantly higher in birds from the group fed with 80 ppm of stevia-based sweetener than those in the control group and slightly higher than those in the group supplemented with 160 ppm of stevia-based sweetener. Likewise, on day 35, antibodies against the Newcastle disease virus were higher in the treatment groups. Immune response to infectious bronchitis virus vaccination was not statistically different among the three groups through the experiment. CONCLUSION: Stevia-based sweetener at 80 ppm in commercial-based diets improved body weight gain and immune response in broiler chickens at the market age. Veterinary World 2021-04 2021-04-15 /pmc/articles/PMC8167524/ /pubmed/34083940 http://dx.doi.org/10.14202/vetworld.2021.913-917 Text en Copyright: © Molina-Barrios, et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Molina-Barrios, Ramón Miguel
Avilés-Trejo, Cielo Rubí
Puentes-Mercado, María Esthela
Cedillo-Cobián, Jesús Raymundo
Hernández-Chavez, Juan Francisco
Effect of dietary stevia-based sweetener on body weight and humoral immune response of broiler chickens
title Effect of dietary stevia-based sweetener on body weight and humoral immune response of broiler chickens
title_full Effect of dietary stevia-based sweetener on body weight and humoral immune response of broiler chickens
title_fullStr Effect of dietary stevia-based sweetener on body weight and humoral immune response of broiler chickens
title_full_unstemmed Effect of dietary stevia-based sweetener on body weight and humoral immune response of broiler chickens
title_short Effect of dietary stevia-based sweetener on body weight and humoral immune response of broiler chickens
title_sort effect of dietary stevia-based sweetener on body weight and humoral immune response of broiler chickens
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8167524/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34083940
http://dx.doi.org/10.14202/vetworld.2021.913-917
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