Background: Probiotics are direct-fed microbial feed supplements which can modulate the gut microflora by competing intestinal pathogens through a competitive process. The present study was conducted to investigate the effect of feeding Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Bacillus subtilis or their mixture...

In order to explore the effect of agent Tu-1 and antibiotics on intestinal digestive enzymes activities, cecal floras and growth performance of rex rabbit, 60 healthy weanling rex rabbits, 40 days old, were selected and randomly divided into the control group (feeding the basic full-price diet),...

Objective Lactobacilli in rabbit intestine is rare and its function in rabbit gut health is not fully understood. The present study aimed to evaluate in vivo the probiotic potential of Lactobacillus casei for suckling rabbits. Methods Two healthy 5-day-old suckling rabbits with similar weights from ...

The rabbit's complex microbiota of the gastrointestinal tract (GIT) plays a critical role in feed digestion, in vitamin production, in fermentative activity with production of volatile fatty acids, and stimulation of immune response, as well as in the infection defence against pathogens and...

Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is known to cause inflammation, as well as intestinal flora and epithelial barrier dysfunction. We evaluated the function of Bacillus subtilis HH2 in a trinitrobenzenesulfonic acid (TNBS)-induced colitis rabbit model through the oral administration of this ...

Animal nutrition has been severely challenged by the ban on antimicrobials as growth promoters. This has fostered the study of alternative methods to avoid colonisation by pathogenic bacteria as well as to improve the growth of animals and feed conversion efficiency. These new options should not...

Multi-strain probiotics (MSP) are considered innovative antibiotics' substitutes supporting superior gut health and immunity of farmed rabbits. The promising roles of MSP on performance, intestinal immunity, integrity and transporters, and resistance against Listeria monocytogenes (L. monocytogenes...

This experiment was conducted to evaluate the effects of supplementing bioengineering protein API (an engineered protein contained catfish antimicrobial peptide parasin I fragment) on growth performance and intestinal health of meat rabbits. A total of 144 healthy 30-day-old weaned meat rabbits...

To our knowledge, no study has been carried out to evaluate the effects of thymol sustained administration on gut health and immune response in terms of its bioavailability in the rabbit organism. A total of 48 rabbits were randomly divided at 35 days of age into two dietary treatment groups...

Increasing reports have indicated that specific strains of probiotic Bacillus have the potential to prevent diseases. The purpose of this study was to explore the effects of three Bacillus strains (Bacillus subtilis BSWJ2017001, Bacillus pumilus BSWJ2017002, and B. subtilis BSWJ2017003) mixture...