The effects of dietary supplementation with mushroom or selenium enriched mushroom powders on the growth performance and intestinal health of post-weaned pigs

Table 10 Effect of dietary treatment on villus height and crypt depth in the small intestine (least-square mean values ± SEM)

Item	Dietary treatments¹			SEM	P-value
Item	Basal²	inSeMP²	orgSeMP²
Duodenum
VH, µm	306.55	283.11	304.50	12.648	0.366
CD, µm	136.16	133.48	140.18	7.611	0.823
VH:CD	2.31	2.17	2.19	0.142	0.778
Jejunum
VH, µm	292.49^b	227.79^a	297.99^b	15.567	0.007
CD, µm	138.30	131.89	143.19	8.408	0.641
VH:CD	2.15^b	1.74^a	2.10^b	0.107	0.029
Ileum
VH, µm	267.90^b	216.84^a	265.27^b	15.600	0.053
CD, µm	134.41	118.23	127.05	8.832	0.445
VH:CD	2.03	1.89	2.12	0.129	0.457

InSeMP mushroom powder supplemented with inorganic selenium, orgSeMP mushroom powder enriched with organic selenium, VH villus height, CD crypt depth, VH:CD villus height to crypt depth ratio
¹Dietary treatments: (1) Basal diet; (2) basal diet + inSeMP containing an inorganic selenium (selenite) content of 0.3 mg/kg feed and a β-glucan content of 650 mg/kg feed; (3) basal diet + orgSeMP containing an organic selenium (selenocysteine) content of 0.3 mg/kg feed and a β-glucan content of 650 mg/kg feed
²A total of 8 replicates were used per treatment group
^a−bMean values within a row with unlike superscript letters were significantly different (P < 0.05)

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