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

Table 9 The effects of dietary treatment on the expression of nutrient transporters, immune markers and tight junctions in pigs duodenum, jejunum and ileum (least-square mean values ± SEM)

Item	Gene	Dietary treatments¹			SEM	P-value
Item	Gene	Basal²	inSeMP²	orgSeMP²
Duodenum	IL10	1.04^a	1.61^b	1.03^a	0.179	0.047
	IL17a	1.09	1.73	0.94	0.223	0.069
	TLR4	1.15^ab	1.90^b	0.87^a	0.234	0.026
Jejunum	MUC2	1.34^ab	1.49^b	0.70^a	0.211	0.038
	SLC15A1	1.13	0.73	1.13	0.153	0.099
	FABP2	1.22^b	0.67^a	1.13^b	0.149	0.037
	SLC2A2	1.2	0.72	1.07	0.15	0.095
Ileum	CLDN3	0.84^ab	1.38^b	0.64^a	0.347	0.008
	MUC2	0.72	0.73	0.91	0.189	0.089
	DIO1	0.35^a	1.24^b	0.79^ab	0.169	0.011

InSeMP mushroom powder supplemented with inorganic selenium, orgSeMP mushroom powder enriched with organic selenium, SLC15A1/PEPT1 peptide transporter 1, FABP2, fatty acid binding protein 2, SLC2A2/GLUT2 glucose transporter 2, IL10 interleukin 10, MUC2 mucin 2, IL17 interleukin 17, TLR4 toll like receptor 4, CLDN3 claudin 3, DIO1 deiodinase type 1
¹Dietary treatments: (1) Basal diet; (2) basal diet + unenriched mushroom powder (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 + selenium enriched mushroom powder (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
^a−bMean values within a row with unlike superscript letters were significantly different (P < 0.05)

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