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. 2023 May 23;9:24. doi: 10.1186/s40813-023-00317-x

Table 8.

Digestive enzyme activities in intestine of piglets as affected by dietary compound essential oil supplementation

Item Con CEO SEM P-value
Digestive enzyme
Duodenum
Trypsin, U/mgprot 46,816 54,215 3,699 0.006
Lipase, U/mgprot 233.27 302.24 34.49 0.003
Amylase, U/mgprot 490.90 533.24 21.17 0.018
Chymotrypsin, U/mgprot 21.52 24.75 1.61 0.104
Jejunum
Trypsin, U/mgprot 43,393 52,427 4,517 < 0.001
Lipase, U/mgprot 274.23 328.82 27.30 0.008
Amylase, U/mgprot 523.48 533.43 4.98 0.520
Chymotrypsin, U/mgprot 19.81 23.30 1.75 0.042