caa a22 4500 397569254 CHVBK 20180308164836.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161202e199611 xx s 000 0 eng 10.3382/ps.0751330 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)oxford-10.3382/ps.0751330 Effects of Dietary Taurine on Growth and Escherichia coli Resistance in Chickens [Elektronische Daten] [E. A. DUNNINGTON, P. B. SIEGEL, K. K. STEWART] White Leghorn chicks selected for either high (HA) or low (LA) antibody response to SRBC were used in two experiments to ascertain the effects of differing levels of dietary taurine on growth, levels of taurine in blood plasma, heart, and brain, and response to Escherichia coli inoculation. A different level of dietary taurine was associated with maximal growth in each of the two selected populations. Line HA expressed greater growth with a relatively low level of taurine, whereas Line LA expressed greater growth with a relatively high level of taurine. Line LA chicks had a higher level of taurine in the heart than did Line HA chicks. Although increases in dietary taurine resulted in linear and curvilinear increases in plasma and heart taurine levels, they had no effect on brain levels. No apparent resistance or susceptibility to E. coli exposure was associated with stock or differing levels of dietary taurine. © 1996 Poultry Science Association, Inc. Breeding and Genetics nationallicence taurine nationallicence chicken nationallicence selection nationallicence Escherichia coli nationallicence growth nationallicence DUNNINGTON E. A. Department of Animal and Poultry Sciences and aut SIEGEL P. B. Department of Animal and Poultry Sciences and aut STEWART K. K. Department of Biochemistry, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061 aut Poultry Science Oxford University Press 75/11(1996-11), 1330-1333 0032-5791 75:11<1330 1996 75 ps https://doi.org/10.3382/ps.0751330 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.3382/ps.0751330 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- DUNNINGTON E. A. Department of Animal and Poultry Sciences and aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- SIEGEL P. B. Department of Animal and Poultry Sciences and aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- STEWART K. K. Department of Biochemistry, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061 aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Poultry Science Oxford University Press 75/11(1996-11), 1330-1333 0032-5791 75:11<1330 1996 75 ps Metadata rights reserved CC BY-NC-4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-oxford