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John K Htoo is affiliated with Evonik (Germany) and specializes in research within Agricultural and Biological Sciences, particularly focusing on Animal Science and Zoology.

The scientist's work primarily addresses topics related to Animal Nutrition and Physiology, Meat and Animal Product Quality, Effects of Environmental Stressors on Livestock, Animal Behavior and Welfare Studies, Aquaculture Disease Management and Microbiota, Muscle Metabolism and Nutrition, and Biopolymer Synthesis and Applications.

Frequent publication venues for John K Htoo include:

  • Journal of Animal Science
  • Animal - science proceedings
  • Animal Feed Science and Technology
  • Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology/Journal of animal science and biotechnology
  • Genes & Nutrition

Among recent papers authored or co-authored by John K Htoo are:

  • "Effect of dietary fiber and threonine content on intestinal barrier function in pigs challenged with either systemic E. coli lipopolysaccharide or enteric Salmonella Typhimurium," 2020, Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology/Journal of animal science and biotechnology
  • "Functional amino acid supplementation, regardless of dietary protein content, improves growth performance and immune status of weaned pigs challenged with Salmonella Typhimurium," 2021, Journal of Animal Science
  • "Methionine nutrition in swine and related monogastric animals: Beyond protein biosynthesis," 2020, Animal Feed Science and Technology
  • "Dietary protein-bound or free amino acids differently affect intestinal morphology, gene expression of amino acid transporters, and serum amino acids of pigs exposed to heat stress," 2020, Journal of Animal Science
  • "Growth performance of weaned pigs fed raw, cold-pelleted, steam-pelleted, or extruded field pea," 2020, Animal Feed Science and Technology

John K Htoo's frequent co-authors include:

  • J. C. González-Vega
  • Marllon José Karpeggiane de Oliveira
  • Luciano Hauschild
  • Daniel A Columbus
  • Danilo Alves Marçal

Best Publications

  • Amino acid digestibility in heated soybean meal fed to growing pigs.

    J. C. González-Vega;B. G. Kim;J. K. Htoo;A. Lemme

  • Effect of dietary protein content on ileal amino acid digestibility, growth performance, and formation of microbial metabolites in ileal and cecal digesta of early-weaned pigs,

    J. K. Htoo;B. A. Araiza;W. C. Sauer;W. C. Sauer;M. Rademacher

  • Fermentable Fiber Ameliorates Fermentable Protein-Induced Changes in Microbial Ecology, but Not the Mucosal Response, in the Colon of Piglets

    Robert Pieper;Susan Kröger;Jan F. Richter;Jing Wang

  • Effects of heat treatment on the apparent and standardized ileal digestibility of amino acids in canola meal fed to growing pigs

    F.N. Almeida;J.K. Htoo;J. Thomson;H.H. Stein

  • Regulation of intestinal health by branched-chain amino acids.

    Hua Zhou;Bing Yu;Jun Gao;John Khun Htoo

  • Performance and nutrient utilization of laying hens fed low-phosphorus corn-soybean and wheat-soybean diets supplemented with microbial phytase

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  • Impact of immune system stimulation on the ileal nutrient digestibility and utilisation of methionine plus cysteine intake for whole-body protein deposition in growing pigs.

    Anoosh Rakhshandeh;John K. Htoo;Neil Karrow;Stephen P. Miller

  • Immune system stimulation reduces the efficiency of tryptophan utilization for body protein deposition in growing pigs.

    K. de Ridder;C. L. Levesque;J. K. Htoo;C. F. M. de Lange

  • Effects of coextrusion of flaxseed and field pea on the digestibility of energy, ether extract, fatty acids, protein, and amino acids in grower-finisher pigs.

    J. K. Htoo;X. Meng;J. F. Patience;M. E. R. Dugan

  • Low-protein amino acid-supplemented diets for growing pigs: effect on expression of amino acid transporters, serum concentration, performance, and carcass composition.

    A Morales;L Buenabad;G Castillo;N Arce

  • Effect of processing of rapeseed under defined conditions in a pilot plant on chemical composition and standardized ileal amino acid digestibility in rapeseed meal for pigs

    M. Eklund;N. Sauer;F. Schöne;U. Messerschmidt

  • Immune system stimulation increases the optimal dietary methionine to methionine plus cysteine ratio in growing pigs.

    N. Litvak;A. Rakhshandeh;J. K. Htoo;C. F. M. de Lange

  • Effect of dietary fiber and threonine content on intestinal barrier function in pigs challenged with either systemic E. coli lipopolysaccharide or enteric Salmonella Typhimurium

    Michael O. Wellington;Kimberley Hamonic;Jack E. C. Krone;John K. Htoo

  • Amino acid digestibility in camelina products fed to growing pigs

    F. N. Almeida;J. K. Htoo;J. Thomson;Hans-Henrik Stein

  • Effects of dietary threonine:lysine ratioes and sanitary conditions on performance, plasma urea nitrogen, plasma-free threonine and lysine of weaned pigs

    Balachandar Jayaraman;John Htoo;Charles Martin Nyachoti

  • Functional amino acid supplementation, regardless of dietary protein content, improves growth performance and immune status of weaned pigs challenged with Salmonella Typhimurium.

    Lucas A Rodrigues;Michael O Wellington;J Caroline González-Vega;John K Htoo

  • Amino acid digestibility in copra expellers and palm kernel expellers by growing pigs

    A.R. Son;Y. Hyun;J.K. Htoo;B.G. Kim

  • Effects of increasing co-product inclusion and reducing dietary protein on growth performance, carcass characteristics, and jowl fatty acid profile of growing-finishing pigs.

    R. Jha;J. K. Htoo;M. G. Young;E. Beltranena

  • Estimation of the ideal ratio of standardized ileal digestible threonine to lysine for growing pigs (22-50 kg) fed low crude protein diets supplemented with crystalline amino acids

    G.J. Zhang;G.J. Zhang;C.Y. Xie;P.A. Thacker;J.K. Htoo

  • Estimation of the standardized ileal digestible valine to lysine ratio required for 25- to 120-kilogram pigs fed low crude protein diets supplemented with crystalline amino acids.

    X. T. Liu;W. F. Ma;X. F. Zeng;C. Y. Xie

  • Amino acid and energy digestibility in different sources of rice bran for growing pigs

    C. Kaufmann;W. C. Sauer;M. Cervantes;Y. Zhang

  • Bioavailability of methionine hydroxy analog-calcium salt relative to DL-methionine to support nitrogen retention and growth in starter pigs.

    F. O. Opapeju;J. K. Htoo;C. Dapoza;C. M. Nyachoti

  • Methionine nutrition in swine and related monogastric animals: beyond protein biosynthesis

    Zhongyue Yang;John K. Htoo;Shengfa F. Liao

  • Ammonia Nitrogen Added to Diets Deficient in Dispensable Amino Acid Nitrogen Is Poorly Utilized for Urea Production in Growing Pigs.

    Wilfredo D Mansilla;Kayla E Silva;Cuilan L Zhu;Charles M Nyachoti

  • Immune system stimulation increases the plasma cysteine flux and whole-body glutathione synthesis rate in starter pigs1

    Anoosh Rakhshandeh;Anoosh Rakhshandeh;Cornelis F M de Lange;John K Htoo;Abbasali Gheisari

  • Ammonia-Nitrogen Added to Low-Crude-Protein Diets Deficient in Dispensable Amino Acid–Nitrogen Increases the Net Release of Alanine, Citrulline, and Glutamate Post–Splanchnic Organ Metabolism in Growing Pigs

    Wilfredo D Mansilla;Kayla E Silva;Cuilan Zhu;Charles M Nyachoti

  • Effects of dietary supplementation of l-methionine vs. dl-methionine on performance, plasma concentrations of free amino acids and other metabolites, and myogenesis gene expression in young growing pigs

    Zhongyue Yang;Shamimul Hasan;John K Htoo;Derris D Burnett

  • Bioavailability of the calcium salt of dl-methionine hydroxy analog compared with dl-methionine for nitrogen retention and the preference of nursery pigs for diets based on the 2 forms of methionine.

    Minqi Q Wang;La T T Huyen;Jung W Lee;Sheila H Ramos

  • Substitution of Dietary Sulfur Amino Acids by DL-2-hydroxy-4-Methylthiobutyric Acid Increases Remethylation and Decreases Transsulfuration in Weaned Piglets.

    Ilka Rasch;Solvig Görs;Armin Tuchscherer;John K Htoo

  • Expression of proposed methionine transporters along the gastrointestinal tract of pigs and their regulation by dietary methionine sources.

    Stella Romanet;Jörg R. Aschenbach;Robert Pieper;Jürgen Zentek

  • Gene expression, serum amino acid levels, and growth performance of pigs fed dietary leucine and lysine at different ratios

    H García;A Morales;A Araiza;J K Htoo

  • Immune system stimulation increases the irreversible loss of cysteine to taurine, but not sulfate, in starter pigs.

    Anoosh Rakhshandeh;Anoosh Rakhshandeh;Cornelis F M de Lange;John K Htoo;Amanda R Rakhshandeh

  • Dietary Supplementation of dl-Methionine Potently Induces Sodium-Dependent l-Methionine Absorption in Porcine Jejunum Ex Vivo.

    Stella Romanet;Jörg R Aschenbach;Robert Pieper;Jürgen Zentek

  • A longer adaptation period to a functional amino acid-supplemented diet improves growth performance and immune status of Salmonella Typhimurium-challenged pigs.

    Lucas A Rodrigues;Michael O Wellington;Jolie Caroline González-Vega;John K Htoo

  • 210 A Longer Adaptation Period to a Functional Amino Acid-supplemented Diet Improves Growth Performance and Attenuates Acute-phase Response in Salmonella Typhimurium-challenged Pigs

    Lucas Rodrigues;Michael O Wellington;J Caroline González-Vega;John K Htoo

  • Growth performance and gut health of Escherichia coli-challenged weaned pigs fed diets supplemented with a Bacillus subtilis direct-fed microbial

    Sangwoo Park;Sangwoo Park;Jung Wook Lee;Jung Wook Lee;Kevin Jerez Bogota;David Francis

  • Evaluating the standardized ileal digestible lysine requirement of 7- to 15-kg weanling pigs fed corn-soybean meal-based diets

    J. Lee;J.C. González-Vega;J.K. Htoo;C.M. Nyachoti

  • Bioavailability of l-lysine sulfate relative to l-lysine HCl for growing–finishing pigs

    Qingyun Li;Stacie A Gould;John Khun Kyaw Htoo;J Caroline González-Vega

Frequent Co-Authors

C. F. M. de Lange
C. F. M. de Lange University of Guelph
Rainer Mosenthin
Rainer Mosenthin University of Hohenheim
Andrew G. Van Kessel
Andrew G. Van Kessel University of Saskatchewan
B.P. Mullan
B.P. Mullan Government of Western Australia
John R. Pluske
John R. Pluske Australasian Pork Research Institute
Olayiwola Adeola
Olayiwola Adeola Purdue University West Lafayette
Charles M. Nyachoti
Charles M. Nyachoti University of Manitoba
John P. Cant
John P. Cant University of Guelph
Beob Gyun Kim
Beob Gyun Kim Konkuk University
Hans-Henrik Stein
Hans-Henrik Stein University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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