. 2017 Jul 25;54(3):218–227. doi: 10.2141/jpsa.0160071

Table 9. Effect of dietary supplementation of attapulgite, oregano essential oil, benzoic acid, and their mixture on cell proliferation in the small intestine (numbers of nuclei of enterocytes)¹.

	CON²	ATT²	ORE²	BEN²	MIX²	SEM³	P-value⁴
Duodenum	15.3^a	16.3^a	22.2^b	17.0^a	20.2^b	0.29	0.001
Jejunum	19.2^a	20.4^ab	23.9^b	20.5^ab	23.7^b	0.44	0.012
Ileum	21.9	22.7	24.7	23.3	24.8	0.35	NS

Results are given as means of groups (n=4 subgroups).

Groups: Control (CON), attapulgite (ATT), oregano essential oil (ORE), benzoic acid (BEN), and their mix- ture (MIX)

SEM: standard error of the mean.

⁴

NS: Not significant (P>0.05)

^{a, b}

Values in the same row with no superscript in common differ significantly.

Table 9. Effect of dietary supplementation of attapulgite, oregano essential oil, benzoic acid, and their mixture on cell proliferation in the small intestine (numbers of nuclei of enterocytes)1.