Items | Treatments | P-value |
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TN | HS | PF |
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Duodenum | 5.33 ± 0.48 | 4.96 ± 0.19 | 4.34 ± 0.62 | 0.337 |
Jejunum | 6.37 ± 0.14ab | 6.02 ± 0.20b | 6.58 ± 0.08a | 0.042 |
Ileum | 6.58 ± 0.10ab | 6.21 ± 0.19b | 6.67 ± 0.10a | 0.060 |
- TN, thermal neutral conditions (25 ± 1 °C); HS, heat stress conditions (35 ± 1 °C); PF, pair-fed with HS under TN conditions (25 ± 1 °C). Data were expressed as mean ± SEM (n = 8 for TN and PF, n = 7 for HS). Treatments with different superscript letters were significantly different at P < 0.05