About this Research Topic
Birds are domesticated as pets, used as livestock, provide important laboratory models for basic scientific research, and their numbers in the wild often indicate stresses in the environment. Birds are also the prime source of food for humans, they are economically very viable as poultry for farmers and contribute to agriculture in different ways, and efforts are made to select the best breeds to improve production yields and performance. Avian nutrition has a direct effect on their health and productivity, although some diets do not provide all the nutritional requirements to cater fully for the birds' needs. Inappropriate nutrition links to poor health, associated veterinary costs, poor egg and meat production and low chick viability. Long term consequences of unbalanced diets could cause health issues in individuals, their offspring or even effect the whole population.
Avian physiological functions are regulated by the interplay between the endocrine, nervous and immune systems and nutrition, however the mechanisms of these complicated interactions are not fully understood. For these reasons, this Research Topic focuses on the validation of important nutritional/physiological parameters, the testing and refinements of existing indicators and the assessment of their reliability and feasibility.
Birds also act as important biomedical models and, since the global analysis of gene expression in many tissues has provided a tool for supporting functional annotation of avian genes, scientists have the possibility to gain insight into gene, cell and tissue function at many developmental stages. Thus, the Topic will also focus on the validation of important nutritional parameters in birds during different stages of their development. Further, the Topic will highlight advances in nutrition, useful resources, means of keeping feeding records, and the tools available to evaluate and review avian diets in nutritional terms. It is hoped that it will become a comprehensive and invaluable resource to help advance our knowledge of avian nutrition.
Thus, the aim of the Topic is to provide a comprehensive view of the research area covering the most recent developments in our understanding of the interaction of physiological systems. There will be a particular focus on the physiology of nutrition, feed technology and preservation, hormonal regulation of stress response, metabolism, growth, development and immune reaction in order to identify and modify events contributing to avian physiology.
Reviews and research papers, among other article types, on all aspects of avian physiology and nutrition interactions, including but not limited to the below list, are welcomed:
- Nutrient requirements and nutritional strategies and management
- Gut health and microbiome
- Prebiotics and probiotics
- Amino acid supplementation
- Nutrients digestibility and digestive enzymes
- Natural alternatives to antibiotics
- Endocrine regulation of brain-gastrointestinal axis
- Molecular mechanism of nutrition action
- Nutrition and stress responses
- Hormonal regulation of avian metabolism and the implications of hormonal regulation of nutrition
- Endocrinology of feeding mechanisms
- Gastrointestinal hormones
- Hormonal regulation of growth
- Neuroimmunoendocrine interactions in avian development
- Pathophysiology and toxicology of nutrition
Avian physiological functions are regulated by the interplay between the endocrine, nervous and immune systems and nutrition, however the mechanisms of these complicated interactions are not fully understood. For these reasons, this Research Topic focuses on the validation of important nutritional/physiological parameters, the testing and refinements of existing indicators and the assessment of their reliability and feasibility.
Birds also act as important biomedical models and, since the global analysis of gene expression in many tissues has provided a tool for supporting functional annotation of avian genes, scientists have the possibility to gain insight into gene, cell and tissue function at many developmental stages. Thus, the Topic will also focus on the validation of important nutritional parameters in birds during different stages of their development. Further, the Topic will highlight advances in nutrition, useful resources, means of keeping feeding records, and the tools available to evaluate and review avian diets in nutritional terms. It is hoped that it will become a comprehensive and invaluable resource to help advance our knowledge of avian nutrition.
Thus, the aim of the Topic is to provide a comprehensive view of the research area covering the most recent developments in our understanding of the interaction of physiological systems. There will be a particular focus on the physiology of nutrition, feed technology and preservation, hormonal regulation of stress response, metabolism, growth, development and immune reaction in order to identify and modify events contributing to avian physiology.
Reviews and research papers, among other article types, on all aspects of avian physiology and nutrition interactions, including but not limited to the below list, are welcomed:
- Nutrient requirements and nutritional strategies and management
- Gut health and microbiome
- Prebiotics and probiotics
- Amino acid supplementation
- Nutrients digestibility and digestive enzymes
- Natural alternatives to antibiotics
- Endocrine regulation of brain-gastrointestinal axis
- Molecular mechanism of nutrition action
- Nutrition and stress responses
- Hormonal regulation of avian metabolism and the implications of hormonal regulation of nutrition
- Endocrinology of feeding mechanisms
- Gastrointestinal hormones
- Hormonal regulation of growth
- Neuroimmunoendocrine interactions in avian development
- Pathophysiology and toxicology of nutrition
Keywords: immune responses, nutrition, stress responses, metabolism, growth, development, endocrine pathology, molecular methods, probiotics
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