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    Effect of small peptide chelated iron on growth performance, immunity and intestinal health in weaned pigs

    Small peptide chelated iron (SPCI), a novel iron supplementation in pig diets, owns growth-enhancing characteristics. Although a number of researches have been performed, there is no clear-cut evidence to show...

    Limei M. Sun, Bing Yu, Yuheng H. Luo, ** Zheng in Porcine Health Management (2023)

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    β-defensin 118 attenuates inflammation and injury of intestinal epithelial cells upon enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli challenge

    Antimicrobial peptides including various defensins have been attracting considerable research interest worldwide, as they have potential to substitute for antibiotics. Moreover, AMPs also have immunomodulatory...

    Qingqing Fu, Qian Lin, Daiwen Chen, Bing Yu, Yuheng Luo in BMC Veterinary Research (2022)

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    Additive value of texture analysis based on breast MRI for distinguishing between benign and malignant non-mass enhancement in premenopausal women

    Non-mass enhancement (NME) is a diagnostic dilemma and highly reliant on the experience of the radiologists. Texture analysis (TA) could serve as an objective method to quantify lesion characteristics. However...

    Yu Tan, Hui Mai, Zhiqing Huang, Li Zhang, Chengwei Li, Songxin Wu in BMC Medical Imaging (2021)

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    Radiation-induced occult insufficiency fracture or bone metastasis after radiotherapy for cervical cancer? The nomogram based on quantitative apparent diffusion coefficients for discrimination

    Radiation-induced insufficiency fractures (IF) is frequently occult without fracture line, which may be mistaken as metastasis. Quantitative apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) shows potential value for chara...

    ** Zhong, Huali Jiang, Hui Mai, Jialin **ang, Jiansheng Li, Zhiqing Huang in Cancer Imaging (2020)

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    Capsulized faecal microbiota transplantation ameliorates post-weaning diarrhoea by modulating the gut microbiota in piglets

    Early weaning-induced stress causes diarrhoea, thereby reducing the growth performance of piglets. Gut bacterial dysbiosis has emerged as a leading cause of post-weaning diarrhoea. The present study aimed to i...

    Wenjie Tang, Daiwen Chen, Bing Yu, Jun He, Zhiqing Huang, ** Zheng in Veterinary Research (2020)

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    STEAP4 and insulin resistance

    Obesity is a multifactorial disease that caused by the interactions between genetic susceptibility genes and environmental cues. Obesity is considered as a major risk factor of insulin resistance. STEAP4 is a nov...

    **aoling Chen, Zhiqing Huang, Bo Zhou, Huan Wang, Gang Jia, Guangmang Liu in Endocrine (2014)

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    Paternal obesity is associated with IGF2hypomethylation in newborns: results from a Newborn Epigenetics Study (NEST) cohort

    Data from epidemiological and animal model studies suggest that nutrition during pregnancy may affect the health status of subsequent generations. These transgenerational effects are now being explained by dis...

    Adelheid Soubry, Joellen M Schildkraut, Amy Murtha, Frances Wang in BMC Medicine (2013)