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. 2020 Jul 20;98(7):skaa233. doi: 10.1093/jas/skaa233

Table 6.

Effect of treatment1 on markers of gut integrity and intestinal morphology

Diet2
Item LF HF HF + XY HF + AX Pooled
SEM
P-value
Plasma LBP, μg/mL 20.6 22.5 20.8 21.7 1.7 0.846
Intestinal morphology
 Villus height, µm 432.0a 403.1b 401.1b 395.2b 4.4 <0.001
 Crypt depth, µm 278.7a 303.3b 269.3c 268.2c 4.7 <0.001
 Villi height: crypt depth 1.6a 1.3b 1.5c 1.5c 0.02 <0.001
Gene expression
Claudin 3 1.41 0.93 2.08 0.65 0.56 0.693
Claudin 4 0.64a 0.52a 1.85b 0.53a 0.36 0.027
Occuldin 0.52a 0.76a 1.27b 0.71a 0.23 0.047
Zonula occludens-1 0.81 1.06 1.21 1.03 0.19 0.087

1 n = 15 pigs per treatment fed experimental diets for a 36-d adaptation period followed by a 10-d metabolism crate study.

2LF, low-fiber control; HF, high-fiber control; HF+XY, high-fiber control containing 100 mg xylanase/kg; HF+AX, high-fiber control containing 50 mg arabinoxylanoligosaccharide/kg.

a–cWithin a row, means without a common superscript differ (P ≤ 0.05).