Exogenous dietary lysozyme improves the growth performance and gut microbiota in broiler chickens targeting the antioxidant and non-specific immunity mRNA expression

• Mervat A. Abdel-Latif,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Nutrition and Veterinary Clinical Nutrition, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Damanhour University, Damanhour, AlBeheira, Egypt

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• Ali H. El-Far ,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: ali.elfar@damanhour.edu.eg

  Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Damanhour University, Damanhour, AlBeheira, Egypt

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9721-4360

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• Ahmed R. Elbestawy,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Poultry Diseases, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Damanhour University, Damanhour, AlBeheira, Egypt

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• Rania Ghanem,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Animal Health Research Institute, Mansoura Laboratory, Mansoura, Egypt

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• Shaker A. Mousa,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Pharmaceutical Research Institute, Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, Albany, New York, United States of America

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• Hatem S. Abd El-Hamid

  Roles Methodology, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Poultry Diseases, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Damanhour University, Damanhour, AlBeheira, Egypt

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