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Feed ANFs-Glycosides
Ruminants are particularly sensitive to all glycosides, not only because saponins can cause bloating, but also because rumen bacteria can hydrolyze sulfur and cyanogenic glycosides, exacerbating their symptoms and problems. BioVenic has an in-depth understanding of the adverse effects of anti-nutritional glycosides on animals and provide feed glycoside solutions. Our solutions include analyzing feed glycosides, developing feed additives, developing feed bioprocessing methods, and conducting in vivo and in vitro animal studies on feed glycosides.
Antinutritional Glycosides
A diverse array of toxic glycosides occurs in higher plants, including glucosinolates, cyanogenic glycosides, glycoalkaloids, saponins, aliphatic nitrotoxins, and cardenolides. Less abundant are toxic glycosides with diterpenoid, sesquiterpenoid, azoxy, phenolic, and sterol aglycones.
Saponins
Saponins are secondary compounds that are generally non-volatile, surface-active compounds widely distributed in nature, primarily in the plant kingdom. Saponins were considered toxic due to their apparent extreme toxicity to fish and cold-blooded animals, and many having strong hemolytic activity. Saponins are antinutrients due to their adverse effects, such as growth impairment, reduced food intake from bitterness and throat irritation, decreased nutrient bioavailability, and reduced enzyme activity and protein digestibility.
Cardiac Glycosides
Cardiac glycosides are organic compounds that increase the force and rate of heart contractions by acting on the cellular sodium-potassium ATPase pump. Hundreds of cardiac glycosides have been found in plants like Scrophulariaceae, Oleaceae, and Liliaceae, represented by digitalis. While therapeutic at medicinal doses for treating congestive heart failure in humans, they are toxic to domestic herbivores when consumed at natural plant concentrations, causing restlessness, dyspnea, ruminal atony, frequent urination and defecation, tachycardia, arrhythmia, and ventricular fibrillation.
Cyanogenic Glycosides
Cyanogenic glycosides are amino acid-derived secondary metabolites featuring a nitrile moiety, which releases hydrocyanic acid upon enzymatic hydrolysis. Many plant species produce hydrogen cyanide from cyanogenic glycosides when consumed, leading to acute intoxication and chronic and acute health problems.
Feed Glycosides Solutions
For feed glycosides with anti-nutritional effects, our solutions can help detect glycoside content and develop nutritional strategies (such as feed additives or feed biological processing methods) to reduce their impact on animal growth and health.
- Analytical Solutions for Glycosides
We have developed customized extraction and detection techniques for glycosides from various sample sources (e.g., different plant parts, feed forms, forage, animal samples, etc.). Our Feed Anti-Nutritional Factor (ANF) Analysis service can help you study their content and provide data for understanding feed safety and developing glycoside-related nutritional strategies. The techniques we use include HPLC, MS, NMR, and more.
- Development of Feed Additives to Counteract Glycosides
Adding enzymes and nutritional health promoters as feed additives can help reduce the activity of antinutritional glycosides and their impact on animal growth and health. We have extensive experience in feed additive development and an integrated technology platform to help you develop new animal feed additives. This includes evaluating additives, optimizing biological production processes, and formulating products to mitigate the negative effects of anti-nutritional glycosides.
- Biological Approaches for Glycosides Reduction in Animal Feed
Microorganism fermentation or enzymatic action can effectively reduce antinutritional factors in feeds. With our feed fermentation optimization and feed enzyme production/process optimization technologies, we can help develop new glycoside-degrading microorganisms or enzymes and study their effectiveness in degrading different antinutritional glycosides to improve feed utilization.
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- Feed Glycosides Related Animal Studies
Animal models are essential for developing feed additives, biological feed processing methods, and exploring the negative effects and mechanisms of glycoside antinutritional factors. Our animal research platform integrates in vitro animal models and in vivo animal models to provide assistance for livestock, poultry, and companion animal experiments. We also offer Animal Nutrition and Metabolism Analysis, and advanced omics research platform to rapidly and efficiently detect and study feed glycoside-related topics from a broader perspective.
Service Workflow of Feed Glycosides Solution
Why Choose Us?
Comprehensive Support
We offer a comprehensive set of technical support, a wide product catalog, and a complete service process by combining internal and external research resources, product resources, and technical service resources.
Specialized in Animal Research
We specialize in animal research and can not only help conduct research related to feed antinutritional factor glycosides, but also provide real data and data analysis using advanced testing platforms.
Efficient Services
We emphasize the efficiency of our services, actively follow up on research progress, and provide timely feedback to our customers, accelerating the development of nutritional strategies through smooth two-way communication.
BioVenic's solutions are specifically developed for glycoside antinutritional factors in animal feed and are designed to provide technical and service support to animal nutrition researchers. These include:
- Analysis of feed glycosides
- Development of feed additives
- Development of feed bioprocesses
- Animal studies related to feed glycosides
Solving the problem of feed antinutritional factor glycosides is our common goal with animal nutrition researchers. If you are interested in our solutions, please feel free to contact us with your research interests, and we will be happy to provide you with timely feedback.