Effects of Selenium Source and Level on Growth Performance, Tissue Selenium Concentrations, Antioxidation, and Immune Functions of Heat-Stressed Broilers
BIOLOGICAL TRACE ELEMENT RESEARCH(2012)
Abstract
An experiment is conducted to investigate the effects of selenium (Se) source and level on growth performance, tissue Se concentrations, antioxidation, and immune functions of heat-stressed broilers from 22 to 42 days of age. A total of 210 22-day-old Arbor Acres commercial male chicks were assigned by body weight to one of seven treatments with six replicates of five birds each in a completely randomized design involving a 3 × 2 factorial arrangement plus one Se-unsupplemented basal diet control (containing 0.027 mg of Se/kg). The three Se sources were sodium selenite (Na 2 SeO 3 ), Se yeast, and AMMS Se (Se protein), and the two supplemental Se levels were 0.15 or 0.30 mg Se/kg. All birds were reared under heat-stressed condition (33 ± 1 °C during 0900–1700 hours and 27 ± 1 °C during 1900–0700 hours with a relative humidity of 60–80 %). The results showed that heat-stressed chicks fed Se-supplemented diets had higher ( P < 0.10) average daily feed intake, Se concentrations in liver and breast muscle, liver glutathione peroxidase (GSH-Px) activity, serum antibody titers against H5N1(Re-4 strain), H5N1(Re-5 strain) and lower ( P < 0.01) mortality compared with the control. Chicks fed the diets supplemented with 0.30 mg/kg of Se had higher ( P < 0.05) Se concentrations in liver and breast muscle, liver GSH-Px activity, and serum antibody titer against H5N1 (Re-4 strain) than those fed the diets supplemented with 0.15 mg/kg of Se. Broilers fed the diets supplemented with Se yeast had higher ( P < 0.001) Se concentrations in liver and breast muscle than those fed the diets supplemented with Na 2 SeO 3 or AMMS Se. However, broilers fed the diets supplemented with AMMS Se had higher ( P < 0.05) serum antibody titers against H5N1 (Re-4 strain) and H5N1 (Re-5 strain) than those fed the diets supplemented with Na 2 SeO 3 . These results indicated that Se yeast was more effective than Na 2 SeO 3 or AMMS Se in increasing tissue Se retention; however, AMMS Se was more effective than Na 2 SeO 3 or Se yeast in improving immune functions of heat-stressed broilers.
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Key words
Selenium,Antioxidation,Immune response,Heat-stressed broilers
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