Table 3.

Immune and oxidative stress markers from gut mucosa in newly-weaned pigs fed diets high (HM) or low (LM) in mycotoxins ¹ or postbiotic yeast cell wall-based blend (PYCW) for 36 days.

Diet	LM		HM		SEM	p Value
PYCW	0%	0.2%	0%	0.2%		Diet	PYCW	Diet vs. PYCW
Concentration/mg of protein
Protein carbonyl, mMol	2.41	2.26	1.97	2.14	0.30	0.206	0.999	0.416
Malondialdehyde, μM	0.382	0.288	0.349	0.350	0.105	0.845	0.536	0.523
Total glutathione, μM	3.02	4.45	4.58	3.74	1.49	0.691	0.784	0.291
TNF-α, pg	4.53	3.86	4.45	5.49	1.19	0.501	0.870	0.458
TNF-α/IgA	3.20	2.32	3.77	2.50	0.93	0.534	0.084	0.753
IgA, μg	2.44	2.15	1.45	2.87	0.74	0.804	0.281	0.108
IgG, μg	1.36	1.48	1.25	1.46	0.31	0.815	0.540	0.885
IL-8, ng	0.255	0.215	0.207	0.270	0.071	0.949	0.825	0.299

¹ HM has 1.0 μg/kg of AFB1 and 2258 μg/kg of DON on average for phases 1 and 2, and 44.6 μg/kg of AFB1 and 4635 μg/kg of DON for phase 3. TNF-α, tumor necrosis factor-alpha; IL-8, interleukin 8; IgA, immunoglobulin A; IgG, immunoglobulin G.