Health Benefits of Supplementing Nursery Pig Diets with Microalgae or Fish Oil

Weaning stress can negatively impact a pig’s performance; dietary supplementation with omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (n-3 PUFA) reduces inflammatory stress and promotes nursery pig’s health and growth. Fish oil (FO) is a major source of n-3 PUFA; however, microalgae (AL) ma...

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Published in:	Animals
Main Authors:	Alison V. Lee, Lan You, Se-Young Oh, Ziwei Li, Alexandra Code, Cuilan Zhu, Rebecca E. Fisher-Heffernan, Timothy R. H. Regnault, Cornelis F. M. De Lange, Lee-Anne Huber, Niel A. Karrow
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	MDPI AG 2019-03-01
Subjects:	microalgae fish oil swine nutrition lipopolysaccharide acute-phase response immune response
Online Access:	http://www.mdpi.com/2076-2615/9/3/80