Bas Kemp

TL;DR: Investigation of the effects of a diet high in RS on luminal microbiota composition, luminal SCFA concentrations, and the expression of host genes involved in SCFA uptake, SCFA signaling, and satiety regulation in mucosal tissue obtained from small intestine, cecum, and colon shows that RS modulates microbiota composition

TL;DR: Chicks that hatched from eggs incubated at low EST during wk 1 of incubation had lower rectal temperature after hatching, especially under low housing temperatures, and this effect lasted until 7 d posthatch in batch 1, and the highest rectal temperatures were always found in chicks incubation at 37.8 degrees C EST constantly throughout incubation.

TL;DR: Using a semi-defined medium for in vitro culture (SOF) may improve characteristics of IVP calves born, and recipients receiving an IVP SOF embryo showed a more regular return to estrus than those receiving anIVP co-culture embryo.

TL;DR: The upper critical temperatures for 60-kg, group-housed pigs fed ad libitum are between 21.3 and 22.4 degrees C, which can be considered to be the inflection point temperature (IPt) above which VFI decreased and RT then increased, and the combination of high T and high RH lowered the ADG in pigs.

TL;DR: It is shown that dietary energy source can affect the balance of the C2/C3 ratio, as indicated by plasma NEFA, beta-hydroxybutyrate (BHBA) and glucose levels, and that feeding extra glycogenic nutrients improved the energy balance (EB), in contrast to ambiguous results of lipogenic nutrients on EB.