. 2020 Feb 2;98(3):skaa046. doi: 10.1093/jas/skaa046

Table 2.

Intestinal morphology and proliferation and total epithelial cell numbers in the cecum of piglets at days 0, 1, 3, 7, and 14 post-weaning¹

Item	Day post-weaning					SEM	P-value
	0	1	3	7	14
Crypt depth, μm	305.70^b	260.51^bc	256.52^c	383.73^a	362.29^a	11.04	<0.001
Crypt width, μm	59.69^b	52.66^c	53.10^bc	69.73^a	67.07^a	1.52	<0.001
Total epithelial cells	185.19^b	172.43^b	203.70^b	277.00^a	244.78^a	9.91	<0.001
Ki67/epithelial cells, %	16.72^a	9.92^b	9.44^b	9.50^b	10.05^b	0.78	0.042

¹Values are presented as means with SEM (n = 8).

^a,b,cValues carrying different superscripts are significant statistical differences (P < 0.05).