Figure 1.

Experimental design. Twenty-eight days before the expected time of farrowing and until the end of the lactation (PND28), two groups of sows were fed either a maltodextrin diet as a control (CTRL group, n = 4) or a scFOS-supplemented diet (PREB group, n = 4). The third group of sows were fed with DON-contaminated diet (DON group, n = 4) during the gestation period only. Piglets from PREB and DON sow litters were selected for PREB and DON piglet groups, respectively. Within the CTRL group litter, piglet received daily a DON solution (DONgav) or excipient (CTRL-, negative control for PREB and DON diets) from PND1 to PND8 orally. Piglets were euthanized at PND10, PND21, PND49 or PND90. The stars in the table represented the PND when jejunal with or without Peyer’s patches and ileal Peyer’s patches were analyze.