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Effect of supplementation of newborn piglets with spray dry blood plasma on weight gain and serum biochemical variables

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The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of ​spray dry blood plasma (SDBP) supplementation for newborn piglets on performance, seric biochemical variables, total antioxidant levels, and nitric oxide. Thus, 20 newborn piglets, with lower body wheith (1.179 ± 0.276 kg) were distributed in an experimental design with five randomized blocks (females were considered block), with two treatments and ten repetitions. The treatment consisted to provide 10 g of SDBP (group T), previously diluted at 1:4 (blood plasma/water) administered for the first hour post-birth of the piglets, and a control group (group C; without blood plasma administration). The performance of newborn piglets was evaluated at days 1, 8, 15, 22, and 28 after birth, and the seric biochemical variables (cholesterol, triglycerides, gamma-glutamyl transferase (GGT), aspartate aminotransferase (AST), alanine aminotransferase (ALT), and urea), total antioxidant levels by ferric reducing ability of plasma (FRAP) method, and nitrite/nitrate (NOx) levels were evaluated at days 5, 15, and 22 post-birth of the piglets. No difference was observed in treatments (groups C and T) for weight gain, as well as for the most biochemical variables, except GGT and NOx (P < 0.05). There was a significant effect (P < 0.05) on age for ALT, AST, and FRAP, i.e., these variables increase in serum. Triglyceride levels have a tendency for reduction (P = 0.07) according to the age. GGT activity and NOx levels were lower (P < 0.05) in group T, as well as the AST levels that showed a tendency for reduction in this group compared to group C. Therefore, supplementation with 10 g for SDBP did not interfere in the weight gain, but altered the GGT activity and NOx levels in the serum of newborn piglets with low weight.

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  1. Department of Animal Science, Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina (UDESC), Chapecó, Brazil

    Sandra Schuh, Gabriela Campigotto, Aleksandro S. Da Silva & Diovani Paiano

  2. Post-Graduate Program of Animal Science, UDESC, Chapecó, Brazil

    Lucieli K. F. Muller, Aleksandro S. Da Silva & Diovani Paiano

  3. Department of Clinical and Toxicological Analyses, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria (UFSM), Santa Maria, Brazil

    Luízi P. Campos & Rafael N. Moresco

  4. Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, UFSM, Santa Maria, Brazil

    Matheus D. Baldissera

  5. Post-Graduate Program of Animal Science, Universidade Estadual de Mato Grosso do Sul, Aquidauana, Brazil

    Stela C. de Oliveira

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Schuh, S., Muller, L.K.F., Campos, L.P. et al. Effect of supplementation of newborn piglets with spray dry blood plasma on weight gain and serum biochemical variables. Comp Clin Pathol 25, 1029–1033 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00580-016-2302-5

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