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Effects of dietary oat supplementation on carcass traits, muscle metabolites, amino acid profiles, and its association with meat quality of Small-tail Han sheep by Li-wei Wang; Shao-feng Su; Jie Zhao; Xiao-long He; Shao-yin Fu; Biao Wang; Yun-fei Wang; Da-qing Wang; Na-na Yun; Xin Chen; Damien P Belobrajdic; Terigele; Xiao-dong Li; Li-li Jiang; Jiang-feng He; Yong-bin Liu is a Agricultural and Biological Sciences article available to read on EtoBox.
Oat supplementation of the ruminant diet can improve growth performance and meat quality traits, but the role of muscle metabolites has not been evaluated. This study aimed to establish whether oat grass supplementation (OS) of Small-tail Han sheep improved growth performance and muscle tissue metabolites that are associated with better meat quality and flavor. After 90-day, OS fed sheep had higher live-weight and carcass-weight, and lower carcass fat. Muscle metabolomics analysis showed that OS fed sheep had higher levels of taurine, l-carnitine, inosine-5′-monophospgate, cholic acid, and taurocholic acid, which are primarily involved in taurine and hypotaurine metabolism, purine metabolism, and bile acid biosynthesis and secretion, decreased fat accumulation and they promote functional or flavor metabolites. OS also increased muscle levels of amino acids that are attributed to better quality and flavorsome mutton. These findings provided further evidence for supplementing sheep with oat grass to improve growth performance and meat quality.
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- Author
- Li-wei Wang; Shao-feng Su; Jie Zhao; Xiao-long He; Shao-yin Fu; Biao Wang; Yun-fei Wang; Da-qing Wang; Na-na Yun; Xin Chen; Damien P Belobrajdic; Terigele; Xiao-dong Li; Li-li Jiang; Jiang-feng He; Yong-bin Liu
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2023
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Agricultural and Biological Sciences (Life Sciences)