Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology

Table 7 Effect of synbiotics injected in ovo on the ileum morphology of chickens at 1^st and 42^nd d of age

From: The impact of synbiotic administration through in ovo technology on the microstructure of a broiler chicken small intestine tissue on the 1^st and 42^nd day of rearing

Item	Day
Item	1	42
Villus height, μm
Control	295.04 ± 9.16	933.31 ± 43.10
SYN1	298.67 ± 10.86	847.78 ± 50.01
SYN2	289.81 ± 9.09	949.05 ± 38.70
Villus width, μm
Control	46.42 ± 1.29^b	162.69 ± 5.58
SYN1	46.62 ± 1.34^b	166.18 ± 4.45
SYN2	50.85 ± 1.66^a	161.32 ± 5.30
Villus surface area, μm²
Control	43,547.4 ± 2124.7	471,197.5 ± 20,933.6
SYN1	44,138.3 ± 2318.3	445,293.0 ± 27,184.3
SYN2	45,834.9 ± 1735.9	484,522.9 ± 26,619.7
Crypt depth, μm
Control	46.14 ± 0.77^B	91.28 ± 2.59^B
SYN1	38.55 ± 0.85^C	116.81 ± 3.18^A
SYN2	50.14 ± 0.98^A	117.39 ± 5.53^A
No. of neutral goblet cells/1mm²
Control	974 ± 50.59^b	263 ± 26.05
SYN1	1129 ± 61.42^a	358 ± 40.66
SYN2	678 ± 19.60^c	285 ± 37.21

^a-cDifference (P ≤ 0.05), ^A-Cdifference (P ≤ 0.01) between treatments (vertical), Means ± SEM representing 15 birds. SYN 1 - L. salivarius IBB3154 + Bi²tos, Clasado Ltd., SYN 2 - L. plantarum IBB3036 + lupin RFOs

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