Effect of Folic Acid Supplementation and Dietary Protein Level on Growth Performance, Serum Chemistry and Immune Response in Weanling Piglets Fed Differing Concentrations of Aflatoxin

Ding Wang; Merlin D. Lindemann; Mark J. Estienne

doi:10.3390/toxins12100651

Toxins (Oct 2020)

Effect of Folic Acid Supplementation and Dietary Protein Level on Growth Performance, Serum Chemistry and Immune Response in Weanling Piglets Fed Differing Concentrations of Aflatoxin

Ding Wang,
Merlin D. Lindemann,
Mark J. Estienne

Affiliations

Ding Wang: Department of Animal and Food Sciences, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40546, USA
Merlin D. Lindemann: Department of Animal and Food Sciences, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40546, USA
Mark J. Estienne: Virginia Tech-Tidewater Agricultural Research and Extension Center, Suffolk, VA 23437, USA

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/toxins12100651
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 12, no. 10
p. 651

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Effects of folic acid and protein levels on growth and serum chemistry in pigs fed aflatoxin were determined in two experiments. Increasing aflatoxin (250 to 800 ppb) decreased (P P P P P P P P P P P P P < 0.05) on BUN. Adding folic acid to aflatoxin contaminated diets improved some measures of clinical chemistry in Experiment 1 but not traditional growth performance measures. The higher protein level reduced the effects of aflatoxicosis on growth.

Published in Toxins

ISSN: 2072-6651 (Online)
Publisher: MDPI AG
Country of publisher: Switzerland
LCC subjects: Medicine
Website: http://www.mdpi.com/journal/toxins/

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