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Five experiments were conducted to evaluate the effects of diet and antimicrobials on weight gain, feed efficiency, ileal weight, and Clostridium perfringens in the ileum of broiler chicks. In the first experiment, glucose, sucrose, and fructose were added to a semipurified diet and the results were compared with those from a practical corn and soybean meal diet. All of the diets were fed with and without bacitracin at a level of 55 ppm. Fructose resulted in the greatest depression in weight gain, followed by sucrose. Bacitracin significantly improved weight gain and feed efficiency of chicks fed the fructose, sucrose, and practical diets. Highly significant inverse correlations were obtained between ileal weight and weight gain and the number of C. perfringens in the ileum and weight gain. In other experiments bacitracin, penicillin, chlortetracycline, oxytetracycline, erythromycin, tylosin, virginiamycin, lincomycin, bambermycins, and carbadox, all at a level of 55 ppm, improved weight gain and feed efficiency and significantly reduced the weight of the ileum and the number of C. perfringens in the ileum of chicks fed the practical diet. The antibacterial agents 3-nitro-4-hydroxy-phenylarsonic acid, arsanilic acid, furazolidone, and sulfathiazole had little to no effect on the 4 parameters evaluated. Virginiamycin and lincomycin at 16.5 and 4.4 ppm, respectively, were shown to be effective. In vitro activities of the antimicrobials against C. perfringens did not directly relate to in vivo activities and the effects on growth and feed efficiency. The results of these experiments support the concept of antimicrobials as growth permittants and provide further evidence for C. perfringens as a causative bacteria for growth depression.
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PMID:Effects of diet and antimicrobials on growth, feed efficiency, intestinal Clostridium perfringens, and ileal weight of broiler chicks. 609 90

1. Virginiamycin, a macrolide reported to bind selectively to CCKB/gastrin receptors has been studied in a functional test, namely cholecystokinin-induced contraction of guinea-pig ileum myenteric plexus (LMMP). 2. Virginiamycin (1-10 microM) antagonized the selective CCKB agonist cholecystokinin tetrapeptide (CCK-4). The antagonism appeared not to be competitive as the highest concentration (10 microM) caused a reduction of its maximal effect. An apparent pA2 of 6.64 +/- 0.06 (s.e.) could be estimated if this depression was ignored. The selective CCKB antagonist, L-365,260 (0.01-0.3 microM) antagonized competitively the CCK-4 induced contraction and a pKB of 8.60 +/- 0.16 (s.e.) was estimated. 3. The combined dose-ratio analysis for virginiamycin, tested at 3 and 10 microM in association with 0.03 and 0.1 microM L-365,260, respectively, resulted in observed log dose-ratios of 1.39 and 1.53. That was consistent with both antagonists acting on the same receptor in LMMP. 4. These data, represent the first evidence of the antagonism of virginiamycin in a functional assay and they support the hypothesis of homogeneity between CCKB receptors in the CNS and in peripheral tissues.
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PMID:Analysis of the CCKB receptor antagonism of virginiamycin in guinea-pig ileum longitudinal myenteric plexus. 848 26