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Table 5 Effects of sophorolipid on gut characteristic and histological analysis of broilers1,2,3

From: Dietary sophorolipid accelerates growth by modulation of gut microbiota population and intestinal environments in broiler chickens

Treatment

CON

BAM

SPL

SEM

P-value

Intestinal, g/100 g body weight

3.18a

3.08ab

2.96b

0.037

0.038

Intestinal weight/length, g/m

30.60

31.12

30.54

0.319

0.735

Villus height, μm

371.27b

398.17ab

422.50a

7.483

0.010

Crypt depth, μm

110.58

104.40

105.50

1.366

0.142

Villus height/crypt depth

3.37b

3.82a

4.01a

0.099

0.013

Goblet cells/villus height, /μm

0.22b

0.21b

0.34a

0.016

< 0.001

  1. 1Treatments: CON, control group fed with basal diet; BAM, group fed with 10 mg/kg of bambermycin supplemented diet; SPL, group fed with 10 mg/kg of sophorolipid supplemented diet
  2. 2Abbreviation: SEM standard error of means
  3. 3A chick is an experimental unit; 6 replications per treatment
  4. a, b Mean values within a row have different superscript letters were significantly different (P < 0.05)