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. 2015 Aug 18;7(8):3210–3223. doi: 10.3390/toxins7083210

Table 1.

ZEN concentrations (ng/g) and CF values in tissues in different intestinal segments and in the livers of pre-pubertal gilts in successive weeks of exposure. Daily feed intake in a restricted feeding regimen (kg/day). Mean dietary ZEN concentrations per kg of feed (µg/kg feed).

Weeks of Exposure Feed Intake (kg/day) ZEN Intake (µg/kg feed) Total ZEN Dose (µg/kg BW) ZEN Concentrations (x¯ and SD)/Carryover Factor (CF)
Duodenum Jejunum Ileum Cecum Ascending Colon Transverse Colon Descending Colon Liver
I 1,1 1014 280 8.60 ** ± 1.58 9.87 ●● ± 0.81 4.63 ▲▲ ± 1.20 4.54 **,▲▲ ± 2.09 1.53 ± 1.95 1.39 ●●,▲▲ ± 1.32 4.70 ●●,** ± 3.98 6.31 ●,**,▲▲ ± 6.16
0.031 0.035 0.016 0.0162 0.0054 0.0049 0.0167 0.0225
II 1,3 972 560 12.34 ** ± 1.75 19.72 ●●,▲▲ ± 2.75 4.99 ▲▲ ± 1.64 4.25 **,▲▲ ± 0.32 1.59 ± 2.76 4.63 ± 3.86 6.80 ●● ** ± 1.40 7.80 *,▲▲ ± 2.82
0.022 0.035 0.009 0.0075 0.0028 0.0082 0.0121 0.0139
III 1,4 1014 840 12.07 ** ± 3.48 13.85 ●● ± 0.48 7.22 ▲▲ ± 0.30 4.30 **,▲▲ ± 1.80 3.16 ± 1.79 3.94 ± 0.57 7.60 ●●,** ± 2.33 13.00 ± 1.78
0.014 0.016 0.008 0.0057 0.0037 0.0046 0.0090 0.0154
IV 1,5 987 1120 21.68 ** ± 4.01 43.82 ± 7.63 4.44 ▲▲ ± 1.52 3.45 **,▲▲ ± 0.67 4.69 ± 0.45 7.37 ± 1.66 205.01 ± 94.70 18.20 ± 5.92
0.019 0.039 0.004 0.0030 0.0042 0.0065 0.1830 0.0162
V 1,8 995 1400 128.18 ± 64.54 13.66 ●● ± 3.73 3.37 ▲▲ ± 0.35 18.17 ± 5.02 3.40 ± 0.54 6.49 ± 0.96 177.03 ± 50.64 20.01 ± 2.43
0.091 0.010 0.002 0.0129 0.0024 0.0046 0.1264 0.0142
VI 2,1 957 1680 80.74 ± 4.34 8.33 ●● ± 1.12 27.52 ± 10.28 13.70 ± 1.17 2.46 ± 1.92 6.70 ± 0.25 112.01 ± 13.69 23.00 ± 0.79
0.048 0.005 0.016 0.0081 0.0014 0.0039 0.0666 0.0136
Average values ZEN 43.93 18.208 8.705 0.068 2.805 5.0086 85.525 14.72
CF 0.0375 0.0233 0.0091 0.0089 0.0033 0.0054 0.0688 0.0159

Key: * and **: relative to Week V, ●●: relative to Week IV; ▲▲: relative to Week VI; : at p ≤ 0.05; ●●, **, ▲▲: at p ≤ 0.01.