Dietary vitamin E improves meat quality and antioxidant capacity in broilers by upregulating the expression of antioxidant enzyme genes

A total of 240 one-day-old broiler chicks were divided into 3 treatments with 4 replicates of 20 birds. The birds were fed a corn–soybean meal diet supplemented with 0, 100, and 200 mg/kg vitamin E (VE), respectively. The results indicated that VE supplementation led to a significant decrease in she...

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Main Authors: Z. Y. Niu, Y. N. Min, F. Z. Liu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2018-01-01
Series:Journal of Applied Animal Research
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09712119.2017.1309321