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- Title
Chinese Herbal Medicines as Potential Agents for Alleviation of Heat Stress in Poultry.
- Authors
Shokryazdan, Parisa; Jahromi, Mohammad Faseleh; MD Saadand, Salwani; Ebrahimi, Mahdi; Idrus, Zulkifli; Zhou, Hailong; Diao, Xiao Ping; Liang, Juan Boo
- Abstract
Heat stress negatively affects the productivity of chickens in commercial poultry farms in humid tropics. In this study, the concentrations and types of the antioxidant compounds of eight Chinese herbal medicines, which have previously demonstrated promising effects on suppressing heat stress as a mixture, were investigated using reversed-phase High Performance Liquid Chromatography, spectrophotometry, Liquid Chromatography Mass Spectrometry, and Gas-Liquid Chromatography. Our results provided the levels of phenolic compounds, total amounts of sugars, and total unsaturated fatty acids in the herbal extracts. Apart from the detection and quantification of the active ingredients of herbs that have the potential to mitigate heat stress in poultry, results of this study also provide useful data for developing an efficient and accurate formulation of the herbs’ mixtures in order to induce positive effects against heat stress in in vivo studies.
- Subjects
PHYSIOLOGICAL effects of heat; HERBAL medicine; POULTRY farms; CHICKEN diseases; HIGH performance liquid chromatography; THERAPEUTICS
- Publication
Scientifica, 2017, p1
- ISSN
2090-908X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1155/2017/8208261