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35
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1760
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78

Overview

N. Le Floc'h is affiliated with INRAE, the Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement in France. Their research primarily spans the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a notable focus on Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Within these fields, subfields such as Animal Science and Zoology, Small Animals, Molecular Biology, Physiology, and Cell Biology are prominent in their work.

The scientist's work covers several main topics including Animal Nutrition and Physiology, Animal Behavior and Welfare Studies, Muscle Metabolism and Nutrition, Meat and Animal Product Quality, and the Effects of Environmental Stressors on Livestock. Additional areas include Pharmacological Effects and Assays, as well as Adipose Tissue and Metabolism.

N. Le Floc'h has contributed to numerous research articles published in established venues. These include multiple publications in:

  • Animal - science proceedings
  • animal
  • Journal of Animal Science
  • BMC Veterinary Research
  • Animal - Open Space

Among their recent papers, titles and publication years are as follows:

  • "Functional Amino Acids in Pigs and Chickens: Implication for Gut Health," 2021, published in Frontiers in Veterinary Science
  • "Feeding intact proteins, peptides, or free amino acids to monogastric farm animals," 2022, published in Amino Acids
  • "Review: Implication of redox imbalance in animal health and performance at critical periods, insights from different farm species," 2022, published in animal
  • "Effect of live yeast supplementation in sow diet during gestation and lactation on sow and piglet fecal microbiota, health, and performance," 2022, published in Journal of Animal Science
  • "Feeding pigs amino acids as protein-bound or in free form influences postprandial concentrations of amino acids, metabolites, and insulin," 2022, published in animal

Collaboration is a notable aspect of N. Le Floc'h's research. Frequent coauthors include:

  • Jaap J. van Milgen
  • Francis Amann Eugenio
  • Isabelle Louveau
  • Joël Duperray
  • Renaud Sergheraert

Best Publications

  • Tryptophan metabolism, from nutrition to potential therapeutic applications

    Nathalie Le Floc’h;Nathalie Le Floc’h;Winfried Otten;Elodie Merlot;Elodie Merlot

  • Gut function and dysfunction in young pigs: physiology

    Jean Paul Lallès;Gaëlle Boudry;Christine Favier;Nathalie Le Floc'h

  • The use of free amino acids allows formulating very low crude protein diets for piglets.

    M. Gloaguen;N. Le Floc’h;N. Le Floc’h;E. Corrent;Y. Primot

  • Review: divergent selection for residual feed intake in the growing pig.

    H. Gilbert;Y. Billon;L. Brossard;J. Faure

  • Chronic lung inflammation affects plasma amino acid concentrations in pigs

    D. Melchior;B. Sève;N. Le Floc’h

  • The effect of sanitary status degradation and dietary tryptophan content on growth rate and tryptophan metabolism in weaning pigs.

    N Le Floc'h;N Le Floc'h;L Lebellego;J J Matte;D Melchior

  • Providing a diet deficient in valine but with excess leucine results in a rapid decrease in feed intake and modifies the postprandial plasma amino acid and α-keto acid concentrations in pigs.

    M. Gloaguen;M. Gloaguen;N. Le Floc’h;N. Le Floc’h;E. Corrent;Y. Primot

  • Impact of feed restriction on health, digestion and faecal microbiota of growing pigs housed in good or poor hygiene conditions.

    N. Le Floc’h;C. Knudsen;T. Gidenne;L. Montagne

  • Functional Amino Acids in Pigs and Chickens: Implication for Gut Health

    Tristan Chalvon-Demersay;Diana Luise;Nathalie Le Floc'h;Sophie Tesseraud

  • Importance of sanitary environment for growth performance and plasma nutrient homeostasis during the post-weaning period in piglets

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  • Metabolic changes and tissue responses to selection on residual feed intake in growing pigs

    T. Le Naou;T. Le Naou;N. Le Floc’h;N. Le Floc’h;I. Louveau;I. Louveau;H. Gilbert

  • The standardized ileal digestible valine-to-lysine requirement ratio is at least seventy percent in postweaned piglets.

    R. Barea;R. Barea;L. Brossard;L. Brossard;N. Le Floc’h;N. Le Floc’h;Y. Primot

  • Response of piglets to the valine content in diet in combination with the supply of other branched-chain amino acids.

    M. Gloaguen;N. Le Floc'h;L. Brossard;R. Barea

  • A sulfur amino acid deficiency changes the amino acid composition of body protein in piglets.

    J. A. Conde-Aguilera;R. Barea;N. Le Floc’h;L. Lefaucheur

  • Intestinal development and growth performance of early-weaned piglets fed a low-threonine diet.

    A. Hamard;B. Sève;N. Le Floc’h

  • Dietary tryptophan helps to preserve tryptophan homeostasis in pigs suffering from lung inflammation.

    N. Le Floc'h;N. Le Floc'h;D. Melchior;B. Sève;B. Sève

  • Impact of hygiene of housing conditions on performance and health of two pig genetic lines divergent for residual feed intake.

    A Chatelet;F Gondret;E Merlot;H Gilbert

  • The relevance of functional amino acids to support the health of growing pigs

    Nathalie Le Floc’h;Anna Wessels;Etienne Corrent;Guoyao Wu

  • Towards the quantitative characterisation of piglets’ robustness to weaning: a modelling approach

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  • Reduced feed intake of lactating primiparous sows is associated with increased insulin resistance during the peripartum period and is not modified through supplementation with dietary tryptophan.

    E. Mosnier;N. Le Floc’h;N. Le Floc’h;M. Etienne;M. Etienne;P. Ramaekers

  • Estimation of the tryptophan requirement in piglets by meta-analysis.

    A. Simongiovanni;E. Corrent;N. Le Floc'h;J. van Milgen

  • The standardized ileal digestible isoleucine-to-lysine requirement ratio may be less than fifty percent in eleven- to twenty-three-kilogram piglets.

    R. Barea;L. Brossard;L. Brossard;N. Le Floc’h;N. Le Floc’h;Y. Primot

  • Meta-analysis of the response of growing pigs to the isoleucine concentration in the diet.

    J. van Milgen;M. Gloaguen;N. Le Floc'h;L. Brossard

  • Meal frequency changes the basal and time-course profiles of plasma nutrient concentrations and affects feed efficiency in young growing pigs

    T Le Naou;N Le Floc'h;N Le Floc'h;I Louveau;I Louveau;J van Milgen;J van Milgen

  • Response of piglets to the standardized ileal digestible isoleucine, histidine and leucine supply in cereal-soybean meal-based diets.

    M. Gloaguen;N. Le Floc'h;Y. Primot;E. Corrent

  • A moderate inflammation caused by the deterioration of housing conditions modifies Trp metabolism but not Trp requirement for growth of post-weaned piglets

    N. Le Floc’h;J. J. Matte;D. Melchior;J. van Milgen

  • Bioavailability of dietary cyanocobalamin (vitamin B12) in growing pigs.

    J. J. Matte;F. Guay;N. Le Floc'h;C. L. Girard

  • Flash dietary methionine supply over growth requirements in pigs: Multi-facetted effects on skeletal muscle metabolism.

    F. Gondret;N. Le Floc'h;D.I. Batonon-Alavo;M-H. Perruchot

  • Meal patterns in relation to the supply of branched-chain amino acids in pigs.

    M Gloaguen;N Le Floc'h;N Le Floc'h;E Corrent;Y Primot

  • A static model to analyze carbon and nitrogen partitioning in the mammary gland of lactating sows.

    U. Krogh;H. Quesnel;N. Le Floc'h;A. Simongiovanni

Frequent Co-Authors

J. van Milgen
J. van Milgen Institut Agro, France
Florence Gondret
Florence Gondret Institut Agro, France
Marie-Christine Meunier-Salaün
Marie-Christine Meunier-Salaün Institut Agro, France
Hélène Gilbert
Hélène Gilbert Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées
Helene Quesnel
Helene Quesnel INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Jean Noblet
Jean Noblet INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Jean-Yves Dourmad
Jean-Yves Dourmad INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Armelle Prunier
Armelle Prunier INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Thierry Gidenne
Thierry Gidenne INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Bénédicte Lebret
Bénédicte Lebret Institut Agro, France

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