Table 5.
Effect of dietary treatments on concentration of FITC-d on serum and gut morphometry.
| Treatments¹ |
P-value |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NC | PC | V500 | V1,000 | V1,500 | SEM4 | ANOVA | Linear | Quadratic | |
| Conc. of FITC-d at 21 d of age | |||||||||
| 3Serum (ng/mL) | 242 | 229 | 244 | 199 | 208 | 0.01 | 0.632 | 0.317 | 0.725 |
| Morphometry | |||||||||
| 21 d of age | |||||||||
| Villus height (µm) | 780 | 762 | 1,067a | 887 | 806 | 19.40 | <0.001 | 0.953 | 0.560 |
| Crypt depth (µm) | 228 | 238 | 229 | 219 | 259 | 5.97 | 0.271 | 0.606 | 0.374 |
| Villus height: crypt depth | 3.5 | 3.5 | 4.9a | 4.2 | 3.4 | 0.12 | <0.001 | 0.841 | 0.372 |
| 42 d of age | |||||||||
| Villus height (µm) | 1,169 | 1,24 | 1,034 | 1,232 | 1,209 | 27.07 | 0.109 | 0.860 | 0.827 |
| Crypt depth (µm) | 223 | 192 | 201 | 186 | 230 | 5.62 | 0.054 | 0.352 | 0.548 |
| Villus height: crypt depth | 5.7 | 7.0 | 5.7 | 6.5 | 5.7 | 0.19 | 0.121 | 0.399 | 0.763 |
1
NC – Control diet, without growth promoter antimicrobials; PC – Control diet, added 0.12g/ton of Enramycin (8%); 500 - Control diet, added 500 g/tonof Viligen; 1,000 - Control diet, added 1,000 g/ton of Viligen; 1,500 - Control diet, added 1,500 g/ton of Viligen.
2Concentration of FITC-d on Serum.
3
SEM = Standard error of the mean.
a
Differs from the positive control treatment by Dunnett's test (P < 0.05).