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Table 5.

Effects of dietary benzoic acid, Bacillus coagulans and oregano oil combined supplementation on disaccharidase activities and nutrient transporter mRNA abundance in jejunal mucosa of weaned piglets.

Item	NC	PC	AB	AO	ABO
Maltase, U/mgprot	187.79 ± 18.48	197.84 ± 8.70	210.44 ± 11.03	207.15 ± 24.03	211.96 ± 28.95
Sucrase, U/mgprot	153.98 ± 43.55	173.35 ± 13.21	214.62 ± 33.59	166.29 ± 28.64	176.45 ± 31.90
SGLT1	1.00 ± 0.17^a	1.14 ± 0.27^ab	1.69 ± 0.27^b	1.31 ± 0.20^ab	1.61 ± 0.20^ab
GLUT2	1.00 ± 0.15	1.22 ± 0.33	1.65 ± 0.16	1.35 ± 0.31	1.42 ± 0.27
PepT1	1.00 ± 0.21	1.22 ± 0.33	1.52 ± 0.12	1.29 ± 0.26	1.50 ± 0.25

NC = negative control, a corn-soybean basal diet; PC = positive control, NC + colistin sulfate at 20 g/t + bacitracin zinc at 40 g/t; AB = NC + benzoic acid at 3,000 g/t + Bacillus coagulans at 400 g/t; AO = NC + benzoic acid at 3,000 g/t + oregano oil at 400 g/t; ABO = NC + benzoic acid at 3,000 g/t + Bacillus coagulans at 400 g/t + oregano oil at 400 g/t; SGLT1 = sodium-glucose cotransporter1; GLUT2 = glucose transporter type 2; PepT1 = oligopeptide transporter 1.

^{a, b} Within a row, values with different letter superscripts mean significant difference (P < 0.05).