Dietary Chitosan Supplementation Modulates Hematology, Lipid Profile, Rumen Function, Antioxidant Status, and Thyroxin in Zaraibi Goat Bucks Fed on High-Fat Diets
Journal: Advances in Applied Physiology
Year: 2023

Recently, chitosan gained a great attention due to its unique biological activities as a natural biodegradable polymer derived from chitin with non-antigenic, non-toxic. It has several positive impacts on animal health including potent antioxidant, antimicrobial activities, and anti-immunogenicity. Therefore, it is a natural, bioactive, mucoadhesive, and biocompatible compound used commonly as a safe additive in animal production. This study was conducted to detect the effects of dietary inclusi