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From: Effects of dietary Hermetia illucens meal inclusion on cecal microbiota and small intestinal mucin dynamics and infiltration with immune cells of weaned piglets

Fig. 4

Gut mucin dynamics in the piglets of the present study. (A) Neutral, acidic sialylated (A. sialylated) and acidic sulfated (A. sulfated) mucin staining percentages in the small intestine independently of dietary insect meal inclusion. Graph bars with superscript letters (a, b, c) differ significantly (P < 0.05). (B) Duodenal, jejunal and ileal mucin staining percentages independently of dietary insect meal inclusion. Graph bars with superscript letters (a, b) differ significantly (P < 0.05). The mucin percentages are expressed as the percentage of the gut mucosal area (covering both the crypts and the villi) that was positive for the histochemical staining

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Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology

ISSN: 2049-1891