Review

Biological Functions of Plant Extracts and Its Mechanisms

  • GAN Liping ,
  • YANG Weiren ,
  • ZHANG Chongyu ,
  • ZHANG Guiguo
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  • Animal Science and Technology, Shangdong Agricultural University, Tai'an 271028, China

Received date: 2015-04-01

  Online published: 2015-09-12

Abstract

Plant extracts are a kind of plant-derived active materials, which exert one or multiple biological functions such as growth promotion, antioxidant, antivirus, and immunological enhancement etc, when applied into animal feeding. Based on the diversity of chemical structure, plant extracts exhibited multifarious acting mechanisms referring to the modulation of antioxidant enzymes, sterilization of pathogenic bacteria, mediation of signaling pathways, defaunation, and inhibition of the methanobacteria proliferation, etc. This paper summarized the biological functions and its mechanisms of plant extracts, as well as the actual application effects in practice so as to provide a reference for further study in this field.

Cite this article

GAN Liping , YANG Weiren , ZHANG Chongyu , ZHANG Guiguo . Biological Functions of Plant Extracts and Its Mechanisms[J]. Chinese Journal of Animal Nutrition, 2015 , 27(9) : 2667 -2675 . DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1006-267x.2015.09.003

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