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Research Progress on Phytoestrogen in Production of Animal Husbandry

WANG Xiao-qian, HE Jian-bin, KOU Yun   

  1. Shenyang Agricultural University, Shenyang 110866, China
  • Received:2012-07-05 Online:2013-01-20 Published:2013-01-14

Abstract: The phytoestrogen is a kind of bioactive substance existing in plants,it’s similar with animal estrogen,and it has ability to integrate with target cell. It has some kinds of physiological functions and bidirectional adjustment,such as it can promote animals willgrow,enhance the body immunity,improve animals’egg laying and milk performance,prevent cancer and so on. It is a major component of some medicine. Due to have enormous medical value,people begin to pay attention to it and use it in human disease treatment,improve animal husbandry productivity in recent years. The author will review that for plant estrogen action mechanism and the effect of phytoestrogen on improving the production performance of dairy cows,egg quality,the farrowing of sow and the survival rate of piglet.

Key words: phytoestrogen; biological function; animal production

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