Serum and meat antioxidative status of broiler chickens fed diets supplemented with garlic rhizome meal, moringa leaf me
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Serum and meat antioxidative status of broiler chickens fed diets supplemented with garlic rhizome meal, moringa leaf meal and their composite Francis Ayodeji Gbore 1 & Olugbenga David Oloruntola 1 & Olufemi Adesanya Adu 2 & Olumuyiwa Joseph Olarotimi 1 Andrew Bamidele Falowo 1 & Elijah OlaoOluwa Afolayan 1
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Received: 20 July 2020 / Accepted: 6 October 2020 # Springer Nature B.V. 2020
Abstract Serum and breast meat antioxidative status of broiler chickens fed diets supplemented with moringa leaf meal (MLM), garlic rhizome meal (GRM) and their composite were assessed. Ninety-six-day old Cobb 500 broiler chickens were randomly allotted to four treatment diets: Diet 1 (control), Diet 2 (2.5 g/kg MLM), Diet 3 (2.5 g/kg GRM) and Diet 4 (1.25 g/kg MLM + 1.25 g/kg GRM). Serum superoxide dismutase concentrations were not significantly (P > 0.05) influenced by the diets, whereas there were increased serum catalase concentrations across all the treatment diets with birds on Diet 4 showing significantly (P < 0.05) higher means than those on the control. For the serum glutathione peroxidase, significant (P < 0.05) increases were observed among the broilers on Diets 2 to 4 with those on Diet 2 showing the highest significant difference (P < 0.05) with birds on the control diet. The meat catalase and cholesterol concentrations of the breast meat were not significantly (P > 0.05) influenced by the phytoadditives. However, significant (P < 0.05) decrease in lipid peroxidation was observed across the treatment diets when compared with the control, while the phytoadditives enhanced the breast meat glutathione peroxidase among the broilers on the Diets 2 and 4. Keywords Broilers . Meat . Serum . Garlic . Moringa . Peroxidation
Introduction The use of the herbal additive in poultry diets, in recent times, had gained relevance in improving the performance, maintaining the physiological balance and enhancing immunity and antioxidant status in the birds (Oloruntola et al. 2018). Herbs with antioxidants content and therapeutic effects are gaining more relevance in animal production. It is a common knowledge that oxidative stress leads to break down of immune system, generates free radicals and causes severe disease
* Olumuyiwa Joseph Olarotimi [email protected] 1
Department of Animal Science, Faculty of Agriculture, Adekunle Ajasin University, P.M.B. 001, Akungba-Akoko, Nigeria
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Department of Animal Production and Health, School of Agriculture and Agricultural Technology, Federal University of Technology Akure, P.M.B. 704, Akure, Ondo State, Nigeria
situations. Though the body has a variety of defence mechanisms against the damaging effects of free radicals, oxidative stress induced by dietary source could limit the ability of selfdefence hence leading to cellular damage (Surai et al. 2019). Therefore, antioxidants played a significant role in reducing oxidative stress by reacting with free radicals during the oxidative process, thereby serving as a reactive species scavenger and liberating catal
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