Table 9.
Effects of different combinations of starch, NSP, and MOS on the intestinal morphology of weaned pigs.
| Items | Different Combinations of Starch, NSP, and MOS | SEM |
p Values |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| T1 | T2 | T3 | T4 | T5 | T6 | T7 | T8 | T9 | |||
| Duodenum | |||||||||||
| villus height (um) | 232.61 | 250.11 | 245.30 | 207.35 | 214.58 | 245.05 | 216.00 | 203.31 | 204.97 | 13.58 | 0.08 |
| crypt depth (um) | 96.74 | 97.32 | 87.76 | 97.71 | 94.71 | 100.78 | 84.55 | 88.03 | 86.69 | 7.38 | 0.74 |
| VH:CD | 2.46 | 2.66 | 2.88 | 2.17 | 2.30 | 2.45 | 2.59 | 2.31 | 2.37 | 0.17 | 0.15 |
| Jejunum | |||||||||||
| villus height (um) | 195.41 | 224.92 | 200.20 | 181.07 | 217.98 | 224.47 | 211.49 | 201.04 | 216.31 | 13.14 | 0.29 |
| crypt depth (um) | 92.03 | 84.82 | 90.57 | 77.42 | 83.02 | 93.15 | 92.19 | 79.04 | 81.89 | 5.07 | 0.21 |
| VH:CD | 2.12 | 2.68 | 2.24 | 2.39 | 2.65 | 2.45 | 2.30 | 2.56 | 2.65 | 0.17 | 0.19 |
| Ileum | |||||||||||
| villus height (um) | 162.59 | 168.34 | 148.91 | 153.14 | 169.21 | 161.56 | 183.27 | 158.56 | 168.97 | 9.60 | 0.37 |
| crypt depth (um) | 79.33 | 72.76 | 82.22 | 71.71 | 74.14 | 80.12 | 79.44 | 76.04 | 76.30 | 3.50 | 0.23 |
| VH:CD | 2.07 | 2.32 | 1.82 | 2.15 | 2.29 | 2.03 | 2.33 | 2.09 | 2.21 | 0.13 | 0.15 |
NSP: non-starch polysaccharides; MOS: mannan-oligosaccharides; VH: villus height; CD: crypt depth; VH:CD: villus height: crypt depth; SEM: standard error of mean.