Table 4.

Effects of different formula treatments on the organ weight in LBW suckling piglets.

Item	Group1			P-value
	BF	SF	HF
Heart, g	10.46 ± 0.62	10.32 ± 0.52	11.4 ± 0.39	0.302
Liver, g	56.1 ± 2.86	52.32 ± 3.92	57.9 ± 5.77	0.659
Spleen, g	2.27 ± 0.25	2.57 ± 0.26	3.12 ± 0.33	0.137
Lung, g	18.65 ± 1.08	18.3 ± 1.2	17.37 ± 0.92	0.688
Kidney, g	9.33 ± 0.47	9.3 ± 0.67	10.53 ± 0.39	0.200
Head, g	31.73 ± 1.12	30.79 ± 0.45	31.65 ± 1.09	0.741
Small intestinal, g	69.34 ± 5.45	66.62 ± 4.51	58.67 ± 11.15	0.600
Small intestine length, cm	370.67 ± 20.39	385.17 ± 17.88	414.5 ± 36.85	0.505
Mean intestinal weight, g/cm	0.19 ± 0.02	0.18 ± 0.01	0.18 ± 0.01	0.739

¹BF, basal infant formula; SF, standard premature infant formula; HF, hydrolyzed protein formula.

Data are expressed as means ± SEM (n = 8). Means within a row with different superscripts are significantly different (P < 0.05).