Dietary β-1,3-glucan supplementation in broilers with dextran sulfate sodium (DSS)-induced colitis: impact on growth performance, organ weight, meat quality, and intestinal health
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The study evaluated the effects of dietary β-1,3-glucan supplementation on growth performance, organ weight, meat quality, and intestinal health in broilers with dextran sulfate sodium (DSS)-induced colitis. Experiment 1, a total of 304 one-day-old Ross 308 male broiler chicks (average initial body weight: 43.06 ± 6.94 g) were randomly assigned to two treatments with 8 replications (19 birds per replication): CON (basal diet) and TRT1 (basal diet + 0.1% β-1,3-glucan). Supplementation of β-1,3-glucan significantly increased body weight gain (BWG) ( P < 0.05), while feed intake and feed conversion ratio remained unaffected. Breast muscle weight, pH, and water-holding capacity increased, and drip loss decreased ( P < 0.05). Experiment 2 also involved 304 Ross 308 male chicks with an initial BW of 42.03 ± 4.38 g. The chicks were assigned to two treatments with 8 replications (19 birds per replication): TRT1 (basal diet + 2.5% DSS) and TRT2 (basal diet + 2.5% DSS + 0.1% β-1,3-glucan). After 35 days, β-1,3-glucan supplementation significantly improved BWG ( P < 0.05) and intestinal length at both 18 and 35 days ( P < 0.05). The study concluded that dietary β-1,3-glucan supplementation enhanced growth performance, meat quality, and intestinal health in broilers.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".