Progress of Microbe-Gut-Brain Axis Regulating Stress Abnormal Behaviors in Laying Hens

  • ZOU Xinyu ,
  • CHENG Hengwei ,
  • JIN Meilan ,
  • JIANG Sha
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  • 1. Joint International Research Laboratory of Animal Health and Animal Food Safety, College of Veterinary Medicine, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, China;
    2. USDA Agricultural Research Service, West Lafayette 479072, USA;
    3. Immunology Research Center, Medical Research Institute, Southwest University, Chongqing 402460, China

Received date: 2020-09-04

  Online published: 2021-04-15

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Abstract

In the modern poultry industry, some management practices, such as raring birds in a cage system with high density, phase feeding and beak trimming, may cause excessive stress in birds, leading to abnormal behaviors, such as feather pecking, aggression and even cannibalism. The gut microbiota has been recognized as a virtual endocrine organ across species and regulates the hosts' stress response and related abnormal behaviors via the established bidirectional communications of the gut-brain axis which can integrate information from metabolism, immune, endocrine and neural pathways, and through the peripheral nervous system including intestinal nerve and vagus, microbial metabolites such as 5-hydroxytryptamine and short chain fatty acids, and immune system. In this review, the excessive stress behaviors of laying hens caused by feeding and management measures were systematically summarized, and possible mechanism of microbial-intestinal-brain axis regulating chicken stress and related behaviors was also discussed, aiming to provide some references for probiotics application in the breeding and management of laying hens.

Cite this article

ZOU Xinyu , CHENG Hengwei , JIN Meilan , JIANG Sha . Progress of Microbe-Gut-Brain Axis Regulating Stress Abnormal Behaviors in Laying Hens[J]. Chinese Journal of Animal Nutrition, 2021 , 33(4) : 1859 -1868 . DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1006-267x.2021.04.007

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