. 2022 Sep 1;8(6):2511–2520. doi: 10.1002/vms3.923

TABLE 5.

Jejunum morphology at day 42 of age in Ross 308 male broilers (n = 24) fed different levels of green tea extract (GTE) or powder (GTP), a neutral control (NC) or a positive control (PC)

Treatment	Villus length (μm)	Villus width (μm)	Crypt depth (μm)	Villus length to crypt depth ratio	Thickness of epithelium (μm)	Number of goblet cells in epithelium
NC	990^d	141^c	217^a	4.61^c	43.2^a	5^c
PC	1180^cd	170^bc	190^ab	6.22^bc	30.2^c	10^c
GTE0.2	1400^ab	188^ab	155^c	9.04^a	33.1^bc	18^ab
GTE0.3	1461^ab	195^ab	153^c	9.57^a	32.0^bc	19^ab
GTE0.4	1483^a	209^a	148^c	10.01^a	30.2^c	24^a
GTP1	1383^abc	189^ab	158^bc	8.83^a	34.3^bc	19^ab
GTP2	1378^bc	190^ab	163^bc	8.65^a	34.7^b	17^b
GTP3	1381^abc	190^ab	163^bc	8.47^ab	35.0^b	17^b
p Value	0.0009	0.03	0.003	0.001	0.002	0.0001
SEM (standard error of mean)	34.85	5.13	5.41	0.388	0.91	1.26

Means within each column with common superscript do not differ significantly at p < 0.05.

NC: negative control (diets not supplemented); PC: positive control (diets supplemented commercial coccidiostat); GTE: green tea extract; GTP: green tea powder.