. 2013 Feb 18;8(2):e56405. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0056405

Table 2. Bacterial growth response to zinc [80 µg·mL⁻¹] supplemented medium in stomach and jejunum digesta samples of piglets fed low or high dietary zinc (data after subtraction of turbidity in non zinc supplemented media).

		Stomach			Jejunum
Day	Time [h]	low zinc	high zinc	p-value	low zinc	high zinc	p-value
32	2	−0.015	−0.008	0.139	0.001	−0.001	0.756
	4	−0.113^a	−0.047^b	0.012	−0.051	−0.016	0.084
	6	−0.179^a	−0.060^b	0.014	−0.130^a	−0.089^b	0.022
	8	−0.105^a	−0.011^b	0.008	−0.161^a	−0.038^b	0.026
	10	−0.013^a	0.009^b	0.023	−0.121^a	−0.057^b	0.008
	12	0.009	0.015	0.264	−0.058	−0.050	0.164
	14	0.046	0.064	0.235	−0.018	−0.021	0.582
	16	0.047	0.080	0.101	0.001	−0.004	0.704
39	2	0.003	−0.002	0.259	0.001	−0.001	0.442
	4	−0.078^a	−0.043^b	0.041	−0.015	−0.012	0.284
	6	−0.164^a	−0.094^b	0.005	−0.113^a	−0.034^b	0.044
	8	−0.166^a	−0.105^b	0.033	−0.179^a	−0.104^b	0.007
	10	−0.149^a	−0.095^b	0.042	−0.105^a	−0.043^b	0.012
	12	−0.118^a	−0.065^b	0.009	−0.023	−0.031	0.422
	14	−0.069	−0.053	0.048	0.033	0.040	0.523
	16	−0.060	−0.032	0.411	0.064	0.076	0.446
46	2	0.003	−0.004	0.452	0.007	0.008	0.862
	4	−0.116	−0.088	0.162	−0.004	−0.001	0.795
	6	−0.050	−0.035	0.206	−0.060	−0.053	0.387
	8	−0.123^a	−0.073^b	0.042	−0.047^a	−0.010^b	0.039
	10	−0.105^a	−0.062^b	0.031	−0.024	−0.009	0.082
	12	−0.071^a	−0.030^b	0.022	0.039	0.011	0.288
	14	−0.049	−0.019	0.128	0.050	0.032	0.323
	16	−0.030	−0.015	0.524	0.064	0.043	0.594
53	2	0.000	0.007	0.397	0.008	0.005	0.362
	4	−0.002	−0.004	0.229	−0.007	−0.004	0.114
	6	−0.033	−0.027	0.172	−0.016	−0.019	0.470
	8	−0.041	−0.035	0.382	−0.047	−0.024	0.089
	10	−0.034	−0.025	0.227	−0.024	−0.003	0.084
	12	−0.018	−0.017	0.693	0.008	0.007	0.824
	14	−0.015	−0.011	0.552	0.023	0.042	0.611
	16	−0.020	0.011	0.419	0.045	0.064	0.403

^{a, b}

Means within rows and intestinal segment with different superscripts differ (P<0.05, t-test). Significant differences between treatments are highlighted in bold.

Table 2. Bacterial growth response to zinc [80 µg·mL−1] supplemented medium in stomach and jejunum digesta samples of piglets fed low or high dietary zinc (data after subtraction of turbidity in non zinc supplemented media).

Table 2. Bacterial growth response to zinc [80 µg·mL⁻¹] supplemented medium in stomach and jejunum digesta samples of piglets fed low or high dietary zinc (data after subtraction of turbidity in non zinc supplemented media).