Table 7.
Tight junction proteins in jejunal tissue of nursery pigs fed diets supplemented with phytobiotics and antibiotics as growth promoters (Exp. 1).
| Antibiotic (AGP) | − | + | SEM | p Value 1 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Phytobiotic (PHY) | − | + | − | + | AGP | PHY | AGP × PHY | |
| Item, band intensity (% of control) normalized with β-actin | ||||||||
| Occludin | 0.161 b | 0.185 b | 0.212 b | 0.070 a | 0.036 | 0.265 | 0.053 | 0.010 |
| Claudin-1 | 0.233 | 0.294 | 0.270 | 0.232 | 0.037 | 0.717 | 0.740 | 0.165 |
| ZO-1 2 | 0.249 | 0.306 | 0.243 | 0.154 | 0.089 | 0.354 | 0.840 | 0.385 |
1 AGP and PHY factors and their interaction (n = 10 per treatment; n = 40 total). 2 Zonula occludens-1. a,b Means within a row with different superscripts differ (p < 0.05).