Table 3. Effects of glutamic acid on the Caspase-3 activity in the jejunum and ileum in piglets challenged with deoxynivalenol (%)1.
| Item | Diet | SEM | P-value | |||
| NC | DON | GLU | DG | |||
| Jejunum | 5.74b | 7.60a | 5.53b | 5.50b | 0.24 | <0.01 |
| Ileum | 5.42b | 7.33a | 5.63b | 5.75b | 0.22 | <0.01 |
a-b
Values with different letters within the same row are different (P<0.05, one way ANOVA method).
1
Dietary treatments were NC, an uncontaminated basal diet, DON, the basal contaminated with 4mg/kg deoxynivalenol, GLU, uncontaminated basal diet with 2% glutamic acid supplementation, and DG, deoxynivalenol-contaminated (4 mg/kg) basal diet with 2% glutamic acid supplementation (n = 5).