ArticleJournal of animal science and technology2025
Evaluation of dietary selenium sources and levels on growth performance, carcass characteristics, selenium concentrations, and blood biochemistry of growing-finishing pigs.
Article in Journal of animal science and technology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
2 citing papers in PubMed.
- Se-enriched yeast improves meat quality through glycerophospholipid metabolism in finishing pigs: insights from a multi-omics analysis.Journal of animal science and biotechnology · 2026Article
- Age-related changes in growth and fecal parameters, nutrient digestibility, hematology, and serum biochemistry of Beagle dogs.Journal of animal science and technology · 2025Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
9 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Selenium (Se) is an essential trace mineral that plays an important role in physiological and biochemical responses by regulating the antioxidant system. Dietary Se is provided as a nutritional supplement to livestock diets in inorganic (ISe) or organic (OSe) form and has different bioavailability to animals. However, the comparison of the effects of dietary Se in different forms and levels of bioavailability are still limited. Therefore, this study was conducted to evaluate the effects of dietary Se sources and levels on growth performance, carcass characteristics, proximate composition of pork loin, Se concentrations, and blood biochemistry of growing-finishing pigs. In a randomized complete block design (block = initial body weight and sex), 160 pigs (28.17 ± 3.03 kg of body weight) were allotted to five dietary treatments (4 pigs/pen; 8 replicates/treatment) and fed for 14 weeks. Dietary treatments were 1) a non-Se-fortified diet based on corn and soybean meal provided as control (CON), 2) CON + 0.3 ppm ISe (ISe3), 3) CON + 0.5 ppm ISe (ISe5), 4) CON + 0.3 ppm OSe (OSe3), and 5) CON + 0.5 ppm OSe (OSe5). Data and sample collections were conducted at the specific time points during the study. Pigs fed dietary OSe tended to have an increased (p < 0.10) gain to feed ratio in the grower phase compared with those fed dietary ISe. In addition, dietary OSe increased (p < 0.05) hot carcass weight compared with dietary ISe. In contrast, dietary ISe increased (p < 0.05) crude protein content of pork loin compared with dietary OSe. Se concentrations in the kidney and pork loin were higher when the dietary Se source was OSe (p < 0.05) and increased with increasing dietary Se level (p < 0.05). In the finisher phase, serum total protein, calcium, inorganic phosphorus, magnesium, and creatinine concentrations increased with increasing dietary Se level (p < 0.05). In conclusion, our study verified that dietary ISe and OSe each affected crude protein content of pork loin and tissue Se concentrations, respectively. Furthermore, blood biochemistry was modulated by prolonged intake with increased levels of dietary Se, regardless of the Se source.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What Socratic holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the Socratic graph.