Open AccessIncrease in resistance of pigs to oxidative stress by means of plant origin
Author(s) -
І. О. Жукова,
А. А. Молчанов,
S. L. Antipin
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
naukovij vìsnik lʹvìvsʹkogo nacìonalʹnogo unìversitetu veterinarnoï medicini ta bìotehnologìj ìmenì s.z. g̀žicʹkogo
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2518-1327
pISSN - 2413-5550
DOI - 10.15421/nvlvet7408
Subject(s) - antioxidant , catalase , food science , population , superoxide dismutase , lipid peroxidation , chemistry , oxidative stress , quercetin , biology , microbiology and biotechnology , biochemistry , medicine , environmental health
Pig breeding in Ukraine is a priority and perspective branch of agriculture to solve the problem of providing the population with the food products of high quality (meat, fat). Meat production is one of the most complicated industries in the field of agriculture. The problem of providing the population with meat is almost impossible to solve without the intensive development of the industry since pigs are different from other farm animals by the premature and high output of slaughter products. The article presents the data of the research on the state of the antioxidant system of pigs when using Macleay and the additives of raw buckwheat «buckwheat green» as the source of quercetin to the feeds. As a result of the experiment it has been found out that the addition of Macleay to the feeds of pigs at the dose of 72 and 210 mg/10 kg of feeds as well as «green buckwheat» at the rate of 1.25 and 6.25 g/kg of body weight in all groups led to the increase in the weight gain of piglets on average by 10–40% and it stimulated the processes of antioxidant protection in the experimental piglets that was characterized by the inhibition of the processes of peroxidation of lipids (POL) (the decrease in the concentration of its primary and secondary TBA-active products– dien conjugates (DC) and malonic dialdehyde (MDA)) and also at first the increase and then the decrease to the normal physiological activity of antioxidant enzymes (catalase and superoxide dismutase (SOD)) and the restoration of the pool of endogenous total antioxidant activity (AOA).