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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2010 - Animal Growth and Development Award, American Society of Animal Science
  • 2003 - American Feed Industry Association Award in Nonruminant Nutrition Research, American Society of Animal Science

Overview

Jack Odle is affiliated with North Carolina State University in the United States and has contributed extensively to several fields within the life sciences, particularly focusing on biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and medicine. Their research spans multiple subfields including nutrition and dietetics, molecular biology, animal science and zoology, surgery, and clinical biochemistry.

The primary topics of Jack Odle's work center around clinical nutrition and gastroenterology, animal nutrition and physiology, metabolism and genetic disorders, peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors, gut microbiota and health, infant nutrition and health, as well as barrier structure and function studies.

Frequent publication venues for their research include:

  • Journal of Animal Science
  • Current Developments in Nutrition
  • International Journal of Molecular Sciences
  • Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology/Journal of animal science and biotechnology
  • The FASEB Journal

Among recent papers associated with Jack Odle's research are the following:

  • Probiotics, Prebiotics and Epithelial Tight Junctions: A Promising Approach to Modulate Intestinal Barrier Function (2021), International Journal of Molecular Sciences
  • The health benefits of selenium in food animals: a review (2022), Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology/Journal of animal science and biotechnology
  • Metabolic Regulation of Intestinal Stem Cell Homeostasis (2021), Trends in Cell Biology
  • Gut microbiome contributions to altered metabolism in a pig model of undernutrition (2021), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • A guide for authors and readers of the American Society for Nutrition Journals on the proper use of P values and strategies that promote transparency and improve research reproducibility (2021), American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Jack Odle has collaborated extensively with other researchers. Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Xi Lin
  • Anthony T. Blikslager
  • Amanda L. Ziegler
  • Feng Wang
  • Laurianne Van Landeghem

Throughout their career, Jack Odle has received recognition in the form of awards from professional societies. These include the Animal Growth and Development Award from the American Society of Animal Science in 2010 and the American Feed Industry Association Award in Nonruminant Nutrition Research from the same society in 2003.

Best Publications

  • Restoration of barrier function in injured intestinal mucosa.

    Anthony T. Blikslager;Adam J. Moeser;Jody L. Gookin;Samuel L. Jones

  • Growth Factors in Milk as Mediators of Infant Development

    S. M. Donovan;J. Odle

  • Fish Oil Enhances Intestinal Integrity and Inhibits TLR4 and NOD2 Signaling Pathways in Weaned Pigs after LPS Challenge

    Yulan Liu;Feng Chen;Jack Odle;Xi Lin

  • Intestinal effects of milkborne growth factors in neonates of agricultural importance.

    Jack Odle;Ruurd T. Zijlstra;Sharon M. Donovan

  • Effect of feeding a milk replacer to early-weaned pigs on growth, body composition, and small intestinal morphology, compared with suckled littermates.

    Ruurd T. Zijlstra;Kwang Youn Whang;Robert A. Easter;Jack Odle

  • Nutritional Factors Influencing Intestinal Health of the Neonate

    Sheila K. Jacobi;Jack Odle

  • New Insights into the Utilization of Medium-Chain Triglycerides by the Neonate: Observations from a Piglet Model

    Jack Odle

  • The effects of dietary fat sources, levels, and feeding intervals on pork fatty acid composition.

    L Averette Gatlin;M T See;J A Hansen;D Sutton

  • Differential expression of heat shock transcription factors and heat shock proteins after acute and chronic heat stress in laying chickens (Gallus gallus)

    Jingjing Xie;Li Tang;Lin Lu;Liyang Zhang

  • Research Note: Bioavailability of Copper in Cupric Oxide, Cuprous Oxide, and in a Copper-Lysine Complex

    D. H. Baker;J. Odle;M. A. Funk;T. M. Wieland

  • Effects of acute and chronic heat stress on plasma metabolites, hormones and oxidant status in restrictedly fed broiler breeders

    Jingjing Xie;Li Tang;Lin Lu;Liyang Zhang

  • Effects of dietary copper source and concentration on carcass characteristics and lipid and cholesterol metabolism in growing and finishing steers.

    T E Engle;J W Spears;T A Armstrong;C L Wright

  • Conjugated linoleic acid evokes de‐lipidation through the regulation of genes controlling lipid metabolism in adipose and liver tissue

    R. L. House;J. P. Cassady;E. J. Eisen;M. K. McIntosh

  • Small Intestinal Disaccharidase Activity and Ileal Villus Height Are Increased in Piglets Consuming Formula Containing Recombinant Human Insulin-Like Growth Factor-I

    Vicki M Houle;Elizabeth A Schroeder;Jack Odle;Jack Odle;Sharon M Donovan

  • Dietary supplementation of aspartate enhances intestinal integrity and energy status in weanling piglets after lipopolysaccharide challenge

    Dingan Pi;Yulan Liu;Haifeng Shi;Shuang Li

  • Supplementing limited methionine diets with rumen-protected methionine, betaine, and choline in early lactation Holstein cows.

    S. Davidson;B.A. Hopkins;J. Odle;C. Brownie

  • The Suckling Piglet as an Agrimedical Model for the Study of Pediatric Nutrition and Metabolism

    Jack Odle;Xi Lin;Sheila K. Jacobi;Sung Woo Kim

  • Liquid diets accelerate the growth of early-weaned pigs and the effects are maintained to market weight.

    J H Kim;K N Heo;J Odle;K Han

  • Effects of induced or delayed parturition and supplemental dietary fat on colostrum and milk composition in sows.

    J R Jackson;W L Hurley;R A Easter;A H Jensen

  • Conjugated Linoleic Acid in Combination with Supplemental Dietary Fat Alters Pork Fat Quality

    L. Averette Gatlin;M. T. See;D. K. Larick;X. Lin

Frequent Co-Authors

E. van Heugten
E. van Heugten North Carolina State University
James K. Drackley
James K. Drackley University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Yongqing Hou
Yongqing Hou Wuhan Polytechnic University
Kenneth L. Bost
Kenneth L. Bost University of North Carolina at Charlotte
David H. Baker
David H. Baker University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Lee M. Graves
Lee M. Graves University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Thomas E. Eling
Thomas E. Eling National Institutes of Health
Sung Woo Kim
Sung Woo Kim North Carolina State University
Robert A. Easter
Robert A. Easter University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Thomas D. Crenshaw
Thomas D. Crenshaw University of Wisconsin–Madison

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