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Table 5.

Concentrations of total Ig in the intestinal mucosa and bile of piglets in response to the treatments (Least-squares means with their standard errors)

	Treatments^*		P
Items	Base	BC-fed	MR-fed	Sow-Milk	se	Treat	Seg	Treat × seg
IgG (mg/g)						0·030	0·963	0·268
Duodenum	0·66^a,b	0·85^a,b	0·62^a	0·80^b	0·27
Jejunum	0·93^a,b	0·50^a,b	0·86^a	0·74^b	0·24
Ileum	0·60^a,b	0·68^a,b	0·36^a	1·21^b	0·13
IgA (mg/g)						0·160	0·031	0·087
Duodenum	1·88	1·85	1·92	3·15	0·47
Jejunum	13·35	1·43	1·17	2·35	3·10
Ileum	11·48	3·15	1·80	4·80	2·11
IgM (mg/g)						0·051	0·001	0·110
Duodenum	1·73^a	2·76^a,b	4·36^b	5·41^a,b	1·22
Jejunum	2·23^a	2·34^a,b	2·94^b	3·34^a,b	0·72
Ileum	8·70^a	5·27^a,b	3·98^b	5·41^a,b	0·94
Biliary IgA (mg/l)	2·9	13·0	22·5	10·8	6·9	0·236
Biliary IgM (mg/l)	1·4	4·9	6·8	4·6	1·5	0·062

Base, Piglets killed at the beginning of the experiment; BC-fed, piglets separated from the sow and fed bovine colostrum; MR-fed, piglets separated from the sow and fed a commercial milk replacer; Sow-Milk, piglets kept with the sow; Treat, treatment; Seg, segment of the small intestine.

^a,bValues within a row with unlike superscript letters were significantly different (P≤ 0·05).

Four piglets were analysed per treatment and small-intestinal site.