Evidence map›Paper›PMID 42357705›Full record

ReviewVeterinary sciences2026

Quorum Sensing Modulators as Antibiotic Alternatives in Animal Production: From Bacterial Signaling to Gut Health and Performance.

Chenxin Tang, Kehui Ouyang, Mingren Qu, Qinghua Qiu

Abstract readReview
In one paragraph

Review in Veterinary sciences, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
1citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact
1 · What the graph read from it

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.

2 · The registry

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.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

  1. Review
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Chenxin TangJiangxi Province Key Laboratory of Animal Nutrition and Feed, College of Animal Science and Technology, Jiangxi Agricultural University, Nanchang 330045, China.
Kehui OuyangJiangxi Province Key Laboratory of Animal Nutrition and Feed, College of Animal Science and Technology, Jiangxi Agricultural University, Nanchang 330045, China.
Mingren QuJiangxi Province Key Laboratory of Animal Nutrition and Feed, College of Animal Science and Technology, Jiangxi Agricultural University, Nanchang 330045, China.
Qinghua QiuJiangxi Province Key Laboratory of Animal Nutrition and Feed, College of Animal Science and Technology, Jiangxi Agricultural University, Nanchang 330045, China.ORCID 0000-0001-9921-2094

Funding

Jiangxi Provincial Natural Science Foundation 20232BAB215051Major Discipline Academic and Technical Leaders Training Program of Jiangxi Province 20243BCE51165National Natural Science Foundation of China 32260861
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In intensive animal production, the overuse of antibiotics has exacerbated bacterial antimicrobial resistance and environmental pollution. Together with gut microbiota dysbiosis and recurrent disease outbreaks, these challenges severely constrain the sector's high-quality development. Quorum sensing (QS), a cell-density-dependent bacterial communication mechanism, can be modulated through agents that specifically inhibit or activate QS circuitry to regulate microbial community functions. Such QS modulators possess notable advantages, such as environmental benignity and high target specificity, and thus offer innovative strategies to decrease antibiotic reliance, enhance production efficiency, and reduce environmental emissions. This review examines QS modulators sourced from plants, microorganisms, animals, and synthetic processes, while highlighting key challenges such as environmental interference, resistance development, high costs, and the lack of standardized biosafety evaluations. Future research should focus on enhancing specificity, stability, affordability, and safety, with an emphasis on rational design, synergistic systems, improved manufacturing processes, and multi-target modulators. This review may provide a theoretical basis for translating QS-regulation technologies into farm-level applications, thereby advancing sustainable animal production and antibiotic-free husbandry.

Indexed as

animal feedenvironmental sustainabilitygut microbiotaintestinal homeostasisproduction efficiencyquorum sensingstress alleviation

Identifiers

PMID42357705
PMCPMC13308443

What Socratic holds

Textmetadata
LicenceCC BY
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

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.