Dietary butyrate, lauric acid and stearic acid improve gut morphology and epithelial cell turnover in weaned piglets

Autor: Xianglin Zeng, Yuan Yang, Junmin Wang, Zhaobin Wang, Jun Li, Yulong Yin, Huansheng Yang
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Animal Nutrition, Vol 11, Iss , Pp 276-282 (2022)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2405-6545
DOI: 10.1016/j.aninu.2022.07.012
Popis: This study was to evaluate the effects of the supplementation of saturated fatty acids with different chain lengths on growth performance, intestinal morphology, epithelial cell proliferation, differentiation and apoptosis in weaned piglets. Thirty-two weaned piglets (Duroc × Landrace × Yorkshire, BW = 7.81 ± 0.26 kg) were weaned at 21 d and randomly assigned to 1 of 4 experimental treatments: (1) a basal diet (control); (2) control + 0.3% butyrate (BT); (3) control + 0.3% lauric acid (LA); (4) control + 0.3% stearic acid (SA). All piglets were then slaughtered for tissue sampling after having been fed experimental diets for 28 d after weaning. Supplementation of BT increased the gain-to-feed ratio (G:F) (P
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