Intestinal toxicity of deoxynivalenol is limited by supplementation with Lactobacillus plantarum JM113 and consequentially altered gut microbiota in broiler chickens

Table 4 Effects of L. plantarum JM113 and DON on caecal volatile fatty acids contents of 42-day-old broilers

Item	Treatments²			SEM	P-value
Item	CON	DON	DL	SEM	P-value
Acetic acid	117.34	108.28	175.76	13.908	0.075
Propionic acid	18.23^b	17.45^b	28.39^a	1.940	0.005
Isobutyric acid	3.60	2.21	3.16	0.357	0.302
n-Butyric acid	18.97^b	19.70^b	34.34^a	2.908	0.017
Isopentanoic acid	3.73	2.49	3.42	0.284	0.187
n-Pentanoic acid	5.46	4.83	6.44	0.420	0.327
Total SCFA¹	167.32^b	154.96^b	251.51^a	18.852	0.044

¹SCFA means short-chain fatty acid
²CON means control group, DON means deoxynivalenol group, DL means deoxynivalenol+ L. plantarum JM113 group; ^a-b the same superscript letters upon the bar means no significant difference was detected between two groups (P < 0.05)

ISSN: 2049-1891