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. 2021 Oct 17;99(11):skab292. doi: 10.1093/jas/skab292

Table 5.

Gut histomorphology of nursery pigs fed diets with different fiber solubility and lipid sources1

Item2 SBP SBH SEM P-value
SBO CWG SBO CWG Fiber Lipid F × L3
Duodenum
 VH, um 526.4 567.9 541.5 528.1 29.42 0.661 0.621 0.350
 CD, um 357.2 311.3 338.0 333.6 22.91 0.962 0.292 0.384
 VH:CD 1.53 1.84 1.61 1.63 0.098 0.489 0.093 0.140
Jejunum
 VH, um 487.2 440.2 472.9 476.9 20.39 0.601 0.311 0.218
 CD, um 250.5 262.9 254.3 269.4 17.08 0.759 0.432 0.943
 VH:CD 2.01 1.71 1.86 1.82 0.116 0.882 0.157 0.262
Ileum
 VH, um 412.2 397.1 413.8 402.9 22.62 0.864 0.577 0.917
 CD, um 231.4 250.8 229.3 218.2 13.19 0.222 0.759 0.282
 VH:CD 1.79 1.61 1.83 1.89 0.113 0.170 0.609 0.293

1SBP, sugar beet pulp; SBH, soybean hulls; SBO, soybean oil; and CWG, choice white grease.

2VH, villous height and CD, crypt depth.

3F × L, fiber by lipid interaction.