TABLE 6.
Effects of dietary LBPs supplementation on intestinal morphology of weaned piglets.
| Items1 | Treatments2 |
SEM3 | P-value | ||
| CON | ABO | LBPs | |||
| Villus height, μm | |||||
| Duodenum | 289b | 336a | 362a | 6.649 | 0.001 |
| Jejunum | 286 | 304 | 327 | 8.925 | 0.198 |
| Ileum | 234b | 242b | 289a | 7.768 | 0.017 |
| Crypt depth, μm | |||||
| Duodenum | 268a | 224b | 264a | 5.448 | 0.005 |
| Jejunum | 207 | 169 | 177 | 7.714 | 0.138 |
| Ileum | 149 | 150 | 142 | 5.361 | 0.807 |
| V/C, μm: μm | |||||
| Duodenum | 1.08b | 1.52a | 1.38a | 0.034 | <0.001 |
| Jejunum | 1.41b | 1.83a | 1.92a | 0069 | 0.014 |
| Ileum | 1.60 | 2.08 | 1.69 | 0.086 | 0.076 |
1V/C, the Villus height to Crypt depth rate.
2Treatments consisted of (1) Control; basal diet, (2) LBPs; basal diet + 4,000 mg/kg LBPs and (3) ABO; basal diet + 20 mg/kg flavomycin + 50 mg/kg quinones.
3SEM, pooled standard error of mean (n = 8).
a,bMeans within each row with different superscripts differ significantly (P < 0.05).