Table 6.

Effect of dietary resveratrol supplementation on intestinal morphology and goblet cells count of lipopolysaccharide-challenged broiler chickens.

Items1	Treatments				SEM	P-values
	CON	RES	LPS	L-RES		LPS	RES	Interaction
Jejunum
VH/μm	975.50a	1023.77a	753.88c	877.31b	17.58	<0.001	0.001	0.045
CD/μm	137.59	130.11	150.31	145.75	7.15	0.061	0.410	0.841
V/C	7.26	8.02	5.08	6.09	0.45	<0.001	0.066	0.782
Goblet cell	32.75	37.59	21.33	27.50	1.51	<0.001	0.002	0.668
Ileum
VH/μm	835.63a	863.81a	634.54c	730.70b	16.07	0.001	0.001	0.047
CD/μm	129.56	122.47	138.65	133.57	6.43	0.132	0.356	0.877
V/C	6.53	7.14	4.62	5.54	0.32	<0.001	0.027	0.631
Goblet cell	28.55	34.35	23.40	26.55	1.64	<0.001	0.013	0.428

¹CON = fed basal diet followed by saline injection; RES = fed basal diet with 400 mg/kg of resveratrol followed by saline injection; LPS = fed basal diet followed by lipopolysaccharide injection; L-RES = fed basal diet with 400 mg/kg of resveratrol followed by lipopolysaccharide injection; VH= villus height; CD= crypt depth; V/C = villus height/crypt depth.

^a,b,cIn the same row, different lowercase letters represent significant differences (P < 0.05). Values are the mean and standard error of the mean, with the mean being the result of 6 replications of each treatment (n = 6).