Youssef A Attia

Youssef A Attia
King Abdulaziz University · Department of Arid Land Agriculture

Ph.D

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Introduction
My research interest focus on improving poultry production in the tropics by nutritional and husbandry means as well as study the physiological mechanism of poultry under different stress conditions
Additional affiliations
October 2003 - September 2012
Fac. of Agric
Position
  • Damanhour University
Description
  • Poultry Science related courses particularly those related to Poultry Nutrition, Poultry Production, Poultry Husbandry
June 1990 - December 1992
University of Georgia
Position
  • Research Associate
Description
  • broiler breeders nutrition and force molting, laying hens force molting
June 1983 - September 1993
Animal Production Research Institute (APRI)
Position
  • Research Associate

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Publications (267)
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Mycotoxins including aflatoxins (AF), zearalenone (ZEN), ochratoxin A (OTA), fumonisins (FUM), trichothecenes (TCN), deoxynivalenol (DON), and T-2 toxin had negative influences on poultry productivity causing a depression in performance, product quality, antioxidative properties, immunity, health status, economic value and sustainability of product...
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By 2050, the need for poultry products is predicted to quadruple globally, mostly as a result of rising living standards. In the meantime, the quality of feed crops and forage, availability of water, poultry diseases, and poultry reproduction are all threatened by climate change, which poses a challenge to poultry production. This analysis assesses...
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We introduce Agent K v1.0, an end-to-end autonomous data science agent designed to automate, optimise, and generalise across diverse data science tasks. Fully automated, Agent K v1.0 manages the entire data science life cycle by learning from experience. It leverages a highly flexible structured reasoning framework to enable it to dynamically proce...
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Context The black soldier fly has been found to be a rich protein source, containing high amounts of protein and lipids, making them a valuable and sustainable alternative to conventional protein sources, such as fish and soybean meals, for broilers, which has also been demonstrated by multiple studies. Aims A meta-analysis was conducted using pee...
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Cancer stem cells (CSCs) are cancer cells that can self-renew and give rise to tumors. The multipotency of CSCs enables the generation of diverse cancer cell types and their potential for differentiation and resilience against chemotherapy and radiation. Additionally, specific biomarkers have been identified for them, such as CD24, CD34, CD44, CD47...
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Supplements derived from plants are utilized to maintain and promote the growth efficiency of animals. The use of black pepper oil (BPO) has recently generated significant scientific interest, primarily because of its potential beneficial effects on both humans and animals. The goal of the current study was to determine how dietary BPO supplementat...
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In the article “Egg Quality, Sensory Attributes, and Protein Metabolites of Laying Hens Fed Whole Flaxseed, Fish Oil, and Different Sources of Trace Elements” by Attia et al. (J. Poult. Sci., Volume 61, Article ID: 2024021, DOI: https://doi.org/10.2141/jpsa.2024021), the following mistakes should be corrected. The authors sincerely regret the error...
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The aim of this investigation was to establish the impact of silymarin and/or Spirulina platensis in mitigating the adverse effects of aflatoxin (AF) present in poultry feed. A total of 450 one-day-old, unsexed Ross 308 broiler chicks were allocated to a completely randomized design with five experimental groups. Each group consisted of six replica...
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Present study is designed to assess the influence of supplementation with green tea powder (GTP) and/or ginger powder (GP) supplementations on various aspects of the welfare and productivity of chicks aged 1 to 5 weeks, exposed to high ambient temperatures ranging from 30.3 to 40.7°C for sustainable broiler production. Specifically, the study analy...
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This study evaluated the effects of whole flaxseed (WFS), fish oil (FO), and different sources of Se, Zn, and Fe (inorganic, organic, and nano-source) on egg production, quality, sensory attributes, and serum protein metabolites in laying hens. A total of 144 hens were divided into six groups with six replicates of four hens each. Hens were fed six...
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Despite the importance of measuring racial-ethnic segregation and diversity in the United States, current measurements are largely based on the Census and, thus, only reflect segregation and diversity as understood through residential location. This leaves out the social contexts experienced throughout the course of the day during work, leisure, er...
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Functional beverages have healthful benefits in reducing the risk of many diseases and enhancing immunity for the consumers. This study aimed to prepare healthy fresh blended beverages from extracts of Kiwi fruit, broccoli, ginseng and black seeds. Seven blending beverages were evaluated for changes in proximate, physio-chemical composition, antiox...
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Follow back accounts inflate their follower counts by engaging in reciprocal followings. Such accounts manipulate the public and the algorithms by appearing more popular than they really are. Despite their potential harm, no studies have analyzed such accounts at scale. In this study, we present the first large-scale analysis of follow back account...
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Flaxseed cake contains high levels of phenolic compounds, which have numerous biological activities, as well as a considerable amount of omega-3 fatty acids, such as α-linolenic acid, which remains after oil extraction. In this study, we examined the effects of flaxseed cake meal (FSCM) on the antioxidative status, lipid metabolism, egg fatty acid...
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One hundred and twenty New Zealand White rabbits (NZW) (5‐week‐old; 735.27 ± 27.23 g) were kept in an open‐sided house during the summer season. The experiment aims to evaluate the impacts of dried tomato pomace powder (DTPP) supplementation on rabbits' performance, blood metabolites, carcass traits, meat quality, and lipid and health indices of NZ...
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Three hundred and sixty, 42-days-old Japanese quail (JQ) hens were randomly divided into six experimental groups with 5 replicates/group. Each replicate consisted of 12 birds (8 females and 4 males). During the growing period, chickens were fed restricted (FR) during the only second week of age at days 7, 9, 11, and 13. Three levels of FR were appl...
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Nowadays, there is a global shortage in feed supply for animal nutrition; however, there are a considerable amount of agro-industrial co- and by-products that may offer a reasonable solution. Flaxseed cake (FSC) is a by-product of flaxseed for oil extraction rich in n-3 α-linolenic acid (ALA). Thus, the dietary inclusion of FSC on laying performanc...
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Objective: The potential of aqueous extract of Christ's thorn jujube (Ziziphus spina-christi) leaves (SLAE) to reduce the negative impacts of heat stress on production performance and physiological traits was investigated in dual-purpose layers under subtropical farming. Methods: A total of 200, 25-week-old laying hens (Inshas strain) were rando...
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The impacts of different dietary levels of rice gluten meal (RGM) on growth performance, digestibility, carcass characteristics, and blood traits of growing New Zealand White (NZW) rabbits were studied. One hundred and twenty, 6 weeks old weaned male rabbits (body weight; 682 [g] ± 23) were randomly allotted into four groups. The control diet conta...
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Simple Summary Heat stress is a critical problem in poultry farming. In the current study, we evaluated the potential use of Spirulina platensis (SP) and Allium sativum (garlic powder, GP) to alleviate the adverse effects of heat stress in commercial broilers. Our findings suggest that supplementing the diet of heat-stressed broiler chickens with S...
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As global consumer demand for poultry meat and eggs continues to rise, it is necessary to improve diet precision and utilisation among birds to keep the costs of poultry products low and reduce the industry’s environmental impact. One possible approach is to feed cheaper, more readily available, and less environmentally harmful feed ingredients. Ho...
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This experiment aimed to examine the influences of distiller’s dried grains with solubles (DDGS) in breeding hen’s nutrition (0, 10, and 20%, respectively) with or without enzyme cocktail blend and yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae, SC) supplementation on the sustainability of eggs and semen quality, fertility and hatchability, and blood biochemistry...
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Dunaliella salina (D. salina) is a well-known microalga that contains considerable amounts of nutritious and medicinal bioactive components. This work studied the modulatory role of D. salina against zinc oxide nanoparticle (ZnO NPs)-induced neurotoxic effects in adult zebrafish. Fishes were subjected to 0.69 mg L−1 (1/5th 96-h LC50) for 4 weeks; t...
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The lighting regime significantly impacts poultry production, reproductive performance, health and welfare. This study aimed to test the effect of the intermittent light (IL) regime on reproductive organs and hormones, semen quality, and behavioral performance. Thus, 270 Rhode Island Red hens aged 20 weeks were distributed among three groups of six...
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to assess radiologically the prevalence of SSCD with its clinical presentations and its relationship with age. a prospective cohort study carried out on 200 consecutive patients (400 temporal bones). Radiological evaluation was performed using High Resolution Computed Tomography (HRCT) with measurement of thickness of bone covering superior semicir...
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Redox homeostasis is a pivotal biological process that guarantees the balance between two molecules—antioxidants and reactive oxygen species (ROS). Normally, a moderate production of ROS is required for the maintenance of many biological processes in the cell; however, the excessive accumulation of ROS, which results in oxidative stress, may evoke...
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Although antibiotics growth promoters (AGPs), including zinc-bacitracin (ZnB), can threaten human health due to developing antimicrobial resistance, as well as drug residue in animal and poultry products, ZnB is still widely used, particularly in developing countries, for the sustainability of poultry farming. The present investigation aims to asse...
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Jatropha is a large, multipurpose, drought-tolerant plant with many traits and great potential as a biofuel crop. It originates from Central America but is now distributed throughout the tropics, including Africa and Asia. The study determines whether the dietary inclusion of raw Jatropha cucas meal (RJM, 3.5%) had negative impacts on the reproduct...
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One hundred and twenty, one-day-old male broiler chicks were used to investigate the effects of supplementation with different dietary protein sources on their performance and immune systems. Chicks were randomly divided into four equal experimental groups (six replicates, each of five chicks). The first group served as a control and was fed a stan...
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Due to their peculiar physicochemical properties, nanoparticles (NPs) have the potential to have a detrimental impact on molecular (proteins and nucleic acids), subcellular, cellular, tissue, and organism levels. However, available works on the harmful effects of the water-borne ionizable NPs, such as aluminum oxide nanoparticles (ALNPs) on fish ar...
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Global production of the two major poultry products, meat and eggs, has increased quickly. This, in turn, indicates both the relatively low cost and the customers' desire for these secure and high-quality products. Natural feed additives have become increasingly popular to preserve and enhance the health and productivity of poultry and livestock. W...
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The effects of Moringa peregrina seed meal (MPSM), autoclaving, and/or enzyme cocktail addition on performance, profitability, carcass traits, meat quality, and blood lipids of broilers between 1 and 35 d of age were investigated. Seven experimental diets were employed: the control 0% MPSM, 10% raw MPSM, 10% autoclaved MPSM (at a temperature of 120...
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Mature Japanese quails (n. 180), aged 8 wk, were divided into 6 groups to evaluate the influence of dietary Astragalus membranaceus powder on laying and reproductive performances, quality of egg, and blood metabolites. A completely randomized design experiment was performed including 6 groups. The first group of quails was served as control (basal...
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recently, a great deal of concern has been offered to develop safe and environmentally friendly alternatives to harmful agricultural chemicals. As a result, organic agriculture, or organic farming, has gained increasing popularity in recent years and is increasingly distinguished as an integral part of global food production. By definition, organic...
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Poultry production significantly contributes to bridging the food gap worldwide. Several nations have limited the usage of antibiotic growth promotors due to bacterial resistance to antibiotics and the occurrence of residual antibiotics in the edible tissues of birds. The world is now turning to using natural alternatives to increase poultry produc...
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The present study explored the neurotoxic impacts of lead (Pb) and the potential alleviating effect of Yucca schidigera extract (YSE) in Japanese quails. About 360 adult Japanese quails (8 weeks old) were used. Quails were randomly distributed to six groups with 4 replicates each: the control group (fed basal diet, BD), the BD + YSE1 and BD + YSE2...
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Building Information Modeling (BIM) has been identified as a useful method for performing a virtual analysis of a building's performance at the design stage to determine which designs have the most impact on the building's performance. The major goal of this research is to see if BIM could be used to analyze and reduce building energy use. The buil...
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The impact of dietary rice bran with or without feed additives on the performance, carcasses, and blood profiles of chickens was examined. A total of 245 unsexed one-week-old broiler chicks were divided into seven groups, with seven replications of five chicks each. The treatments were: (1) control, (2) 5% rice bran, (3) 5% rice bran + 0.5 g/kg of...
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The majority of pathologies in poultry are linked to intestinal chronic inflammation due to a disbalance of the gut microbiota. Thus, a healthy microbiota drives the gut integrity, and the gut’s biological and metabolic functionalities, including efficacious use of nutrition, but also immunity, and neuroendocrine systems. However, many external fac...
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The aim of this study is to investigate the responses of egg quality, sensory attributes and lipid profile of eggs and blood serum to different combinations of dietary oil supplementations and storage conditions. Thus, laying hens aged 25 weeks were assigned to six experimental groups and fed different diets for 14 weeks. The group fed an unsupplem...
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The response to amino acid (AAs) supplementation on broiler production, carcass and meat traits and nitrogen in the excreta during the early growth period was evaluated. Two experiments were performed during 1–28 d (245 birds, experiment 1) and 1–21 d of age (455 birds, experiment 2). In both experiments, the positive control (PC) diet had 22.5% cr...
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The chemical composition, antioxidant activity, tannic acid content, mineral, fatty acid, and amino acid profiles of oil-extracted Moringa peregrina seed meal (OEMPSM) were determined. Apparent (AME) and true (AMEn) metabolizable energy and apparent (AAAU) and true (TAAU) amino acid utilization were evaluated using a precision feeding trial. The pr...
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This research aimed to study the impact of supplementation of three multi-enzyme levels (0, 0.1, and 0.2% of feed) and two levels of dietary treatments [standard diet (SD) and low-density diet (LDD)] on growth performance, carcass traits, digestibility, and meat quality of broilers from 1 to 38 days of age. A total of 216 1-day-old Arbor Acres broi...
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مثل تغذية الدواجن تحدي كبير لصناعة الدواجن نظرا لأنها تمثل 60-70% من تكاليف الإنتاج المتغيرة وتزداد هذه التحديات في تغذية الدواجن العضوية نظرا للمحددات الإضافية التي تشمل قلة الموارد العضوية للأعلاف العضوية والحد من استخدام المضادات الحيوية والمبيدات والكيماويات ويعرض المجلد أسس التغذية العضوية للدواجن لإنتاج البيض واللحم العضوي نظرا لزيادة الطلب ع...
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Citrus reticulata and Tagetes minuta are two economic plants in Egypt. Waste branches of C. re-ticulate which called petit grain are used to produce petit grain mandarin oil. This process increases the mandarin producer's income with a new product instead of burning it. Also, the waste of petit grain mandarin after distillation can be used as a com...
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This handbook focuses on the use of antibiotic alternatives in poultry and fish feed. Chapters in the book cover a range of natural ingredients in feed and the impacts of these natural feed additives on growth, production, reproduction and health status of poultry and fish. All chapters give a holistic approach to how organic feed additives (herbal...
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This handbook focuses on the use of antibiotic alternatives in poultry and fish feed. Chapters in the book cover a range of natural ingredients in feed and the impacts of these natural feed additives on growth, production, reproduction and health status of poultry and fish. All chapters give a holistic approach to how organic feed additives (herbal...
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This handbook focuses on the use of antibiotic alternatives in poultry and fish feed. Chapters in the book cover a range of natural ingredients in feed and the impacts of these natural feed additives on growth, production, reproduction and health status of poultry and fish. All chapters give a holistic approach to how organic feed additives (herbal...
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This paper aimed to review the recent advances in using insect meal in poultry nutrition to assess the suitable species, dietary inclusion level, and nutrients profile, advantage, and disadvantage as well. More than 50 research articles, review articles, short communications, and book chapters were obtained from various online databases i.e. Google...
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The supplementation of different ω-6/ω-3 ratio to the diets of the laying hens has been studied to evaluate the effects on performance, egg quality, egg health indices, egg fatty acid profiles, and immune response. One-hundred and twenty, 50-weeks-old hens were divided into three groups fed diets with different ω-6/ω-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (...
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Pelargonium graveolens is an important economic plant, so many farmers work in producing geranium essential oil, to increase their income and also increasing the national income. Distillation of geranium herb produces floral water and factories throw it as a waste water. Using stripping column Hashem Brothers for Essential oils and Aromatic Product...
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Due to the harmful effects of synthetic chemical acaricides on ecosystems and human health, there is increasing interest in the use of nanotechnology to fabricate eco-friendly nanoemulsions based on plant oils in the field of spider mite control. In this study, nanoemulsions of abamectin, garlic, and neem oils were prepared by a high-energy approac...
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Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), is currently spreading worldwide. The pandemic has already had significant adverse effects on human civilization, the environment, and the ecosystem at national and global levels. Moreover, the various sectors of the food production chain, p...
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Silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) interact with the microbes and host immune system to protect against diseases. Fertile broiler eggs (n = 900) were allotted to six groups: un-injected control, sham (sterile water), AgNPs (50 μg), AgNPs+Amino acids (Methionine-10 mg + Arginine-25 mg), AgNPs+Vitamins (Vit B1-72μg + Vit B6-140μg), and AgNPs+Trace Elements...
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COVID-19 pandemic influenced the environment, animal health, and food security. Due to reduced human mobility, the air and water quality increased. Other environmental consequences were the personal protective types of equipment and their haphazard disposal. Atmospheric pollution could be a cofactor leading to an increased COVID-19 mortality rate....
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Flax seed meal is a valuable source of fatty acids, particularly omega-3 such as alpha-linolenic acid (ALA), but its mucilage contents limit its use. This study assessed the effect of different levels of soaked flax seed meal (SFSM) on the production and health parameters in Rhode Island Red laying hens. A total of 120 hens were divided into three...