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Table 4.

Effect of curcumin (CUR) and piperine (PIP) on intestinal mucosa morphology of weaned Wuzhishan piglets.

Items	Treatments^a					SEM^b	P
	CON	PIP	Low-CUR	PIP + CUR	High-CUR
Jejunum
Villus height (μm)	314.01^e	328.50^e	348.12^de	377.66^cd	395.73^c	9.191	0.003
Villus width (μm)	155.08	140.42	132.51	131.57	133.96	5.389	0.234
Crypt depth (μm)	179.76	176.29	181.28	170.95	173.04	3.941	0.912
Villus height/crypt depth	1.75^e	1.87^de	1.92^d	2.21^c	2.30^c	0.062	0.001
Ileum
Villus height (μm)	298.57^d	312.63^d	318.46^d	354.61^c	367.86^c	8.128	0.005
Villus width (μm)	158.23	152.22	159.10	145.11	150.45	3.728	0.805
Crypt depth (μm)	179.97	160.59	151.58	154.76	157.35	3.918	0.458
Villus height/crypt depth	1.71^f	1.95^e	2.11^de	2.29^cd	2.36^c	0.069	0.001

CON: a corn–soybean basal diet; PIP, low-CUR, PIP + CUR, and high-CUR, the basal diet supplemented with 50 mg/kg piperine, 200 mg/kg curcumin, 200 mg/kg curcumin + 50 mg/kg piperine, and 300 mg/kg curcumin, respectively.

SEM, standard error of the mean (n = 6).

^cdef

means in the same row with different letters differ significantly (P < 0.05).