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A Simple Polymerase Chain Reaction-based Method for the Discrimination of Three Chicken Breeds
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Mitsuhashi, T., Kubo, Y., Plastow, G.
A large number of branded chicken products exist in Japan, and in some cases, the breed of chicken is an important factor used to attract consumer interest in the retail product. In order to establish a simple method for verifying such breed claims we applied the amplified fragment length...
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Antimicrobial Resistant Campylobacter species in the Food Chain: Understanding the Human Risk of Infection
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Background: Campylobacter spp., commonly detected in poultry, are the third most common cause of foodborne illness in Canada. Campylobacter while self-limiting and typically only requiring supportive care treatment, can be resistant to antimicrobials important to human health. To better...
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Combined Adsorption and Biodegradation Processes for Oil Sands Process-Affected Water Treatment
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The oil sands process-affected water (OSPW) generated from bitumen extraction of oil sands by industries in Northern Alberta, Canada, is a great environmental concern because of the OSPW toxicity in the environment. This toxicity has been attributed to a group of alicyclic and aliphatic compounds...
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Fall 2021
Hypertension is the leading cause of global morbidity and mortality, afflicting > 20% of adults worldwide (~1 in 4 in Canada). Pharmaceutical drugs are the primary treatment for hypertension, but are generally associated with side effects. Recently, food-derived antihypertensive peptides are...
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Spring 2018
Escherichia coli and Salmonella are contaminants in meat products and pose a risk for foodborne illness. Thermal lethality is the traditional method for controlling pathogens in meat products. It is recommended that ground beef and poultry products be cooked to internal temperatures of 71°C and...
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Fall 2016
Foot pad dermatitis was identified as a welfare concern by the Alberta broiler industry. However, there are no published studies benchmarking foot pad dermatitis or methods of foot pad assessment recommended to producers in Alberta. Thus, the objectives of the thesis were to benchmark foot pad...
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Quantitative trait loci affecting Rous Sarcoma Virus induced tumor regression trait in F2 intercross chickens
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Uemoto, Y., Mitsuhashi, T., Saburi, J., Miyata, T., Suzuki, K., Odawara, S., Yamashita, H., Yamamoto, R., Sato, S-I., Plastow, G., Kobayashi, E., Irina, C., Ohtake, T.
We performed a genome-wide linkage and quantitative trait locus (QTL) analysis to confirm the existence of QTL affecting Rous Sarcoma Virus (RSV) induced tumor regression, and to estimate their effects on phenotypic variance in an F2 resource population. The F2 population comprised 158 chickens...
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Spring 2017
A phenylarsenical, 3-nitro-4-hydroxyphenylarsonic acid (Roxarsone®, Rox), has been used extensively as a poultry feed additive for over 60 years. However, little is known about the concentrations of different arsenic species present in chicken meat as a consequence of feeding Rox to chickens....
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Xylo-oligosaccharides and virginiamycin differentially modulate gut microbial composition in chickens
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Zhao, Xin, Pourabedin, Mohsen, Guan, Leluo
Background The emergence and spread of antibiotic resistance in pathogens have led to a restriction on the use of antibiotic growth promoters (AGPs) in animal feed in some countries. The potential negative after-effects of a ban on AGPs could be mitigated by improving animal intestinal health...