Table 3. Alkaline phosphatase (AP) activity concentrations in colonic tissue and digesta contents of pigs born to control or antibiotic-treated sows and fed a low (LF) or a high (HF) fat diet between 140 and 169 days of age (LSmeans and SEM, n = 10 per treatment).
| Sow’s treatment | Control | Antibiotics | Statistics (P =) 1 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Offspring’s diet | LF | HF | LF | HF | SEM | treat. | diet | treat.*diet |
| Colonic tissue | ||||||||
| μg AP/ g tissue | 4.73 | 4.47 | 5.34 | 4.48 | 0.78 | 0.71 | 0.47 | 0.70 |
| μg AP/ g protein | 117 | 106 | 131 | 121 | 17 | 0.43 | 0.52 | 0.97 |
| Colonic digesta | ||||||||
| μg AP/ g fresh digesta | 17 b | 14 b | 18 b | 30 a | 3 | 0.037 | 0.37 | 0.042 |
| μg AP/ g protein | 1.06 a b | 0.73 b | 0.85 b | 1.55 a | 0.17 | 0.097 | 0.27 | 0.005 |
1Treat.: Treatment of sows pre- and post-partum (control versus antibiotic); diet (low versus high fat diet); treat.*diet: treatment by diet interaction.
a, b LS means with different superscript letters in a row differ (P<0.05).