Table 6.

Effects of dietary supplementation with TA on digestive enzyme activities of weaned piglets¹

	Dietary treatment
Item	CON	AB	TA2	P-value
Alkaline phosphatase, U/mg of protein
Jejunum	136.27 ± 24.93	205.97 ± 35.98	186.49 ± 32.46	0.31
Ileum	281.79 ± 55.00	286.31 ± 56.20	289.60 ± 41.84	0.99
Maltase, U/mg of protein
Jejunum	173.21 ± 24.73	183.56 ± 27.31	219.51 ± 33.81	0.50
Ileum	177.14 ± 35.25a	75.18 ± 10.64b	107.89 ± 15.81b	0.03
Lactase, U/mg of protein
Jejunum	21.39 ± 4.05	24.20 ± 5.05	25.78 ± 3.23	0.76
Ileum	7.31 ± 1.59	3.41 ± 1.66	5.50 ± 1.61	0.25
Sucrase, U/mg of protein
Jejunum	42.14 ± 7.52	41.76 ± 12.29	43.26 ± 8.31	0.99
Ileum	27.66 ± 8.56	34.17 ± 6.91	18.2928 ± 6.20	0.38

¹Values are expressed as mean ± SEM; n = 9.

^a,bValues in the same row not sharing a common superscript differ significantly.