Effect of the interaction of seaweed extracts containing laminarin and fucoidan with zinc oxide on the growth performance, digestibility and faecal characteristics of growing piglets

British Journal of Nutrition

Volumn 111, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 798-807

  O'Shea, C J ^a   McAlpine, P ^a   Sweeney, T ^a   Varley, P F ^a   O'Doherty, J V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Fucoidan; Laminarin; Weaned piglets; Zinc oxide

Indexed keywords

ALGAL EXTRACT; FUCOIDIN; LAMINARAN; ORGANIC MATTER; ZINC OXIDE; ANTIDIARRHEAL AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BIOLOGICAL PRODUCT; POLYSACCHARIDE; VOLATILE FATTY ACID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL FOOD; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; CHEMICAL INTERACTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DIGESTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECES COMPOSITION; FOOD INTAKE; GROWTH RATE; LACTOBACILLUS; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT DYNAMICS; PIGLET; WEANING; WEIGHT GAIN; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; CALORIC INTAKE; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; DIARRHEA; DIET; FECES; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LAMINARIA; MALE; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; SEAWEED; SWINE;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; SUIDAE;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTIDIARRHEALS; BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTS; DIARRHEA; DIET; DIGESTION; ENERGY INTAKE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FATTY ACIDS, VOLATILE; FECES; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; LAMINARIA; MALE; POLYSACCHARIDES; SEAWEED; SUS SCROFA; WEANING; WEIGHT GAIN; ZINC OXIDE;

EID: 84899731305     PISSN: 00071145     EISSN: 14752662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0007114513003280     Document Type: Article

References (48)

1. Pluske JR, Hampson DJ &Williams IH (1997) Factors influencing the structure and function of the small intestine in the weaned pig: a review. Livest Prod Sci 51, 215-236.
2. Vallee BL &Falchuk KH (1993) The biochemical basis of zinc physiology. Physiol Rev 73, 79-118.
3. Roselli M, Finamore A, Garaguso I, et al. (2003) Zinc oxide protects cultured enterocytes from the damage induced by Escherichia coli. J Nutr 133, 4077-4082.
4. Sargeant HR, McDowall KJ, Miller HM, et al. (2010) Dietary zinc oxide affects the expression of genes associated with inflammation: transcriptome analysis in piglets challenged with ETEC K88. Vet Immunol Immunopathol 137, 120-129.
5. Molist F, Hermes RG, de Segura AG, et al. (2011) Effect and interaction between wheat bran and zinc oxide on productive performance and intestinal health in post-weaning piglets. Br J Nutr 105, 1592-1600.
6. Højberg O, Canibe N, Poulsen HD, et al. (2005) Influence of dietary zinc oxide and copper sulfate on the gastrointestinal ecosystem in newly weaned piglets. Appl Environ Microbiol 71, 2267-2277.
7. Buff CE, Bollinger DW, Ellersieck MR, et al. (2005) Comparison of growth performance and zinc absorption, retention, and excretion in weanling pigs fed diets supplemented with zinc-polysaccharide or zinc oxide. J Anim Sci 83, 2380-2386.
8. Meyer TA, Lindemann MD, Cromwell GL, et al. (2002) Effects of pharmacological levels of zinc as zinc oxide on fecal zinc and mineral excretion in weanling pigs. Prof Anim Scientist 18, 162-168.
9. ODoherty JV, Dillon S, Figat S, et al. (2010) The effects of lactose inclusion and seaweed extract derived from Laminaria spp. on performance, digestibility of diet components and microbial populations in newly weaned pigs. Anim Feed Sci Technol 157, 173-180.
10. Gahan DA, Lynch MB, Callan JJ, et al. (2009) Performance of weanling piglets offered low-, medium- or high-lactose diets supplemented with a seaweed extract from Laminaria spp. Animal 3, 24-31.
11. Berteau O &Mulloy B (2003) Sulfated fucans, fresh perspectives: structures, functions, and biological properties of sulfated fucans and an overview of enzymes active toward this class of polysaccharide. Glycobiology 13, 29R-40R.
12. Smith AG, ODoherty JV, Reilly P, et al. (2011) The effects of laminarin derived from Laminaria digitata on measurements of gut health: selected bacterial populations, intestinal fermentation, mucin gene expression and cytokine gene expression in the pig. Br J Nutr 105, 669-677.
13. Reilly P, ODoherty JV, Pierce KM, et al. (2008) The effects of seaweed extract inclusion on gut morphology, selected intestinal microbiota, nutrient digestibility, volatile fatty acid concentrations and the immune status of the weaned pig. Animal 2, 1465-1473.
14. Swanson KS, Grieshop CM, Flickinger EA, et al. (2002) Fructooligosaccharides and Lactobacillus acidophilus modify gut microbial populations, total tract nutrient digestibilities and fecal protein catabolite concentrations in healthy adult dogs. J Nutr 132, 3721-3731.
15. Carlson M, Hill G &Link J (1999) Early and traditionally weaned nursery pigs benefit from phase-feeding pharmacological concentrations of zinc oxide: effect on metallothionein and mineral concentrations. J Anim Sci 77, 1199-1207.
16. Davis ME, Brown DC, Maxwell CV, et al. (2004) Effect of phosphorylated mannans and pharmacological additions of zinc oxide on growth and immunocompetence of weanling pigs. J Anim Sci 82, 581-587.
17. Sauvant D, Perez J-M &Tran G (2004) Tables of Composition and Nutritional Value of Feed Materials. Pigs, Poultry, Cattle, Sheep, Goats, Rabbits, Horses, Fish, 2nd ed. Wageningen: Wageningen Academic Publishers.
18. Pierce KM, Callan JJ, McCarthy P, et al. (2005) Performance of weanling pigs offered low or high lactose diets supplemented with avilamycin or inulin. Anim Sci 80, 313-318.
19. Leonard SG, Sweeney T, Bahar B, et al. (2011) Effects of dietary seaweed extract supplementation in sows and postweaned pigs on performance, intestinal morphology, intestinal microflora and immune status. Br J Nutr 106, 688-699.
20. Usov AI, Smirnova GP &Klochkova NG (2001) Polysaccharides of algae: 55. Polysaccharide composition of several brown algae from Kamchatka. Russ J Bioorg Chem 27, 395-399.
21. OConnell JM, Callan JJ &ODoherty JV (2006) The effect of dietary crude protein level, cereal type and exogenous enzyme supplementation on nutrient digestibility, nitrogen excretion, faecal volatile fatty acid concentration and ammonia emissions from pigs. Anim Feed Sci Technol 127, 73-88.
22. McCarthy JF, Bowland JP &Aherne FX (1977) Influence of method upon the determination of apparent digestibility in the pig. Can J Anim Sci 57, 131-135.
23. OShea CJ, Sweeney T, Bahar B, et al. (2012) Indices of gastrointestinal fermentation and manure emissions of growing- finishing pigs as influenced through singular or combined consumption of Lactobacillus plantarum and inulin. J Anim Sci 90, 3848-3857.
24. Lee C, Kim J, Shin SG, et al. (2006) Absolute and relative qPCR quantification of plasmid copy number in Escherichia coli. J Biotechnol 123, 273-280.
25. Statistical Analysis Systems Institute (1985) Statistical Analysis Systems, 6.12 ed. Cary, NC: SAS Institute Inc.
26. Dybkjær L, Jacobsen AP, Tøgersen FA, et al. (2006) Eating and drinking activity of newly weaned piglets: effects of individual characteristics, social mixing, and addition of extra zinc to the feed. J Anim Sci 84, 702-711.
27. Dritz SS, Owen KQ, Nelssen JL, et al. (1996) Influence of weaning age and nursery diet complexity on growth performance and carcass characteristics and composition of high-health status pigs from weaning to 109 kilograms. J Anim Sci 74, 2975-2984.
28. Taras D, Vahjen W, Macha M, et al. (2006) Performance, diarrhea incidence, and occurrence of Escherichia coli virulence genes during long-term administration of a probiotic Enterococcus faecium strain to sows and piglets. J Anim Sci 84, 608-617.
29. Just A, Fernandez J &Jørgensen H (1983) The net energy value of diets for growth in pigs in relation to the fermentative processes in the digestive tract and the site of absorption of the nutrients. Livest Prod Sci 10, 171-186.
30. Wilfart A, Montagne L, Simmins PH, et al. (2007) Sites of nutrient digestion in growing pigs: effect of dietary fiber. J Anim Sci 85, 976-983.
31. Walsh AM, Sweeney T, OShea CJ, et al. (2013) Effect of dietary laminarin and fucoidan on selected microbiota, intestinal morphology and immune status of the newly weaned pig. Br J Nutr (epublication ahead of print version 26 March 2013).
32. Pluske JR, Thompson MJ, Atwood CS, et al. (1996) Maintenance of villus height and crypt depth, and enhancement of disaccharide digestion and monosaccharide absorption, in piglets fed on cows whole milk after weaning. Br J Nutr 76, 409-422.
33. Walsh AM, Sweeney T, OShea CJ, et al. (2013) Effect of supplementing varying inclusion levels of laminarin and fucoidan on growth performance, digestibility of diet components, selected faecal microbial populations and volatile fatty acid concentrations in weaned pigs. Anim Feed Sci Technol 183, 151-159.
34. Zijlstra RT, Lange CFMD &Patience JF (1999) Nutritional value of wheat for growing pigs: chemical composition and digestible energy content. Can J Anim Sci 79, 187-194.
35. Macfarlane S, Macfarlane GT &Cummings JH (2006) Review Article: prebiotics in the gastrointestinal tract. Aliment Pharmacol Ther 24, 701-714.
36. Marounek M, Adamec T, Skivanova V, et al. (2002) Nitrogen and in vitro fermentation of nitrogenous substrates in caecal contents of the pig. Acta Vet Brno 71, 429-433.
37. Blümmel M, Aiple KP, Steingab H, et al. (1999) A note on the stoichiometrical relationship of short chain fatty acid production and gas formation in vitro in feedstuffs of widely differing quality. J Anim Physiol Anim Nutr 81, 157-167.
38. Hill GM, Cromwell GL, Crenshaw TD, et al. (2000) Growth promotion effects and plasma changes from feeding high dietary concentrations of zinc and copper to weanling pigs (regional study). J Anim Sci 78, 1010-1016.
39. Owusu-Asiedu A, Nyachoti CM &Marquardt RR (2003) Response of early-weaned pigs to an enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (K88) challenge when fed diets containing spray-dried porcine plasma or pea protein isolate plus egg yolk antibody, zinc oxide, fumaric acid, or antibiotic. J Anim Sci 81, 1790-1798.
40. Medani M, Bzik VA, Rogers A, et al. (2012) Zinc sulphate attenuates chloride secretion in human colonic mucosae in vitro. Eur J Pharmacol 696, 166-171.
41. McDonnell P, Figat S &ODoherty JV (2010) The effect of dietary laminarin and fucoidan in the diet of the weanling piglet on performance, selected faecal microbial populations and volatile fatty acid concentrations. Animal 4, 579-585.
42. Casey PG, Gardiner GE, Casey G, et al. (2007) A five-strain probiotic combination reduces pathogen shedding and alleviates disease signs in pigs challenged with Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium. Appl Environ Microbiol 73, 1858-1863.
43. Heo JM, Kim JC, Hansen CF, et al. (2010) Effects of dietary protein level and zinc oxide supplementation on the incidence of post-weaning diarrhoea in weaner pigs challenged with an enterotoxigenic strain of Escherichia coli. Livest Sci 133, 210-213.
44. Castillo M, Martín-Orue SM, Manzanilla EG, et al. (2006) Quantification of total bacteria, enterobacteria and lactobacilli populations in pig digesta by real-time PCR. Vet Microbiol 114, 165-170.
45. Debon SJJ&TesterRF (2001) In vitro binding of calcium, iron and zinc by non-starch polysaccharides. Food Chem 73, 401-410.
46. Becker G, Osterloh K, Schäfer S, et al. (1981) Influence of fucoidan on the intestinal absorption of iron, cobalt, manganese and zinc in rats. Digestion 21, 6-12.
47. Metzler-Zebeli BU, Hooda S, Pieper R, et al. (2010) Nonstarch polysaccharides modulate bacterial microbiota, pathways for butyrate production, and abundance of pathogenic Escherichia coli in the pig gastrointestinal tract. Appl Environ Microbiol 76, 3692-3701.
48. Huijsdens XW, Linskens RK, Mak M, et al. (2002) Quantification of bacteria adherent to gastrointestinal mucosa by real-time PCR. J Clin Microbiol 40, 4423-4427.