Ryan N. Dilger

Excess dietary L-cysteine, but not L-cystine, is lethal for chicks but not for rats or pigs.

2-keto-4-(methylthio)butyric acid (keto analog of methionine) is a safe and efficacious precursor of L-methionine in chicks.

Betaine can partially spare choline in chicks but only when added to diets containing a minimal level of choline.

Excess dietary L-cysteine causes lethal metabolic acidosis in chicks.

Sickness behavior induced by endotoxin can be mitigated by the dietary soluble fiber, pectin, through up-regulation of IL-4 and Th2 polarization.

Behavioral assessment of cognitive function using a translational neonatal piglet model.

Fasting induces an anti-inflammatory effect on the neuroimmune system which a high-fat diet prevents.

Inhibition of betaine-homocysteine S-methyltransferase in rats causes hyperhomocysteinemia and reduces liver cystathionine β-synthase activity and methylation capacity.

Magnetic resonance imaging of the neonatal piglet brain.

Place and direction learning in a spatial T-maze task by neonatal piglets.

Brain growth of the domestic pig (Sus scrofa) from 2 to 24 weeks of age: a longitudinal MRI study.

Early life iron deficiency impairs spatial cognition in neonatal piglets.

Dietary guanidino acetic acid is an efficacious replacement for arginine for young chicks.

An in vivo three-dimensional magnetic resonance imaging-based averaged brain collection of the neonatal piglet (Sus scrofa).

Early supplementation of phospholipids and gangliosides affects brain and cognitive development in neonatal piglets.

Fructose decreases physical activity and increases body fat without affecting hippocampal neurogenesis and learning relative to an isocaloric glucose diet.

Perinatal choline deficiency delays brain development and alters metabolite concentrations in the young pig.

Moderately Fermentable Potato Fiber Attenuates Signs and Inflammation Associated with Experimental Colitis in Mice.

Effects of Eimeria acervulina infection severity on growth performance, apparent ileal amino acid digestibility, and plasma concentrations of amino acids, carotenoids, and α1-acid glycoprotein in broilers.

Influence of dietary amino acid reductions and Eimeria acervulina infection on growth performance and intestinal cytokine responses of broilers fed low crude protein diets.

Perinatal Dietary Choline Deficiency in Sows Influences Concentrations of Choline Metabolites, Fatty Acids, and Amino Acids in Milk throughout Lactation.

Young pigs exhibit differential exploratory behavior during novelty preference tasks in response to age, sex, and delay.

Early-Life Nutrition and Neurodevelopment: Use of the Piglet as a Translational Model.

Dietary Sialyllactose Influences Sialic Acid Concentrations in the Prefrontal Cortex and Magnetic Resonance Imaging Measures in Corpus Callosum of Young Pigs.

Early-Life Iron Deficiency Reduces Brain Iron Content and Alters Brain Tissue Composition Despite Iron Repletion: A Neuroimaging Assessment.

Noninvasive imaging of cerebral blood volume in piglets with vascular occupancy MR imaging and inflow vascular space occupancy with dynamic subtraction.

Dietary Sialyllactose Does Not Influence Measures of Recognition Memory or Diurnal Activity in the Young Pig.

Longitudinal Effects of Iron Deficiency Anemia and Subsequent Repletion on Blood Parameters and the Rate and Composition of Growth in Pigs.

A Vision for Development and Utilization of High-Throughput Phenotyping and Big Data Analytics in Livestock.

Dietary methylsulfonylmethane supplementation and oxidative stress in broiler chickens.

Dietary pectin at 0.2% in milk replacer did not inhibit growth, feed intake, or nutrient digestibility in a 3-week neonatal pig study.

Gut-Brain Axis in the Early Postnatal Years of Life: A Developmental Perspective.

Human and Bovine Milk Oligosaccharides Elicit Improved Recognition Memory Concurrent With Alterations in Regional Brain Volumes and Hippocampal mRNA Expression.

Dietary supplementation with anti-IL-10 antibody during a severe Eimeria challenge in broiler chickens.

Effects of methylsulfonylmethane and neutralizing anti-IL-10 antibody supplementation during a mild Eimeria challenge infection in broiler chickens.

Dietary lutein plus zeaxanthin and choline intake is interactively associated with cognitive flexibility in middle-adulthood in adults with overweight and obesity.

Effects of lysine biomass supplementation on growth performance and clinical indicators in broiler chickens.

High-resolution magnetic resonance imaging-based atlases for the young and adolescent domesticated pig (Sus scrofa).