Dietary supplementation of benzoic acid and essential oils combination enhances intestinal resilience against LPS stimulation in weaned piglets

Table 3 Effects of dietary BAO supplementation on organ index in piglets challenged with LPS

^{Organ index}	CON	LPS	BAO + LPS	SEM	P
Heart	5.72	5.62	5.19	0.22	0.617
Liver	29.76^b	32.71^ab	35.26^a	1.01	0.077
Spleen	2.32	2.96	2.59	0.14	0.156
Kidney	5.43	6.06	5.75	0.21	0.505
Intestine	106.46	101.31	110.04	5.15	0.810
Pancreas	1.08	1.04	0.86	0.07	0.467

Organ index (g/kg) = organ weight (g)/body weight (kg). Dates are presented as means ± SEM (n = 5)
CON Corn-soybean meal basal diets group treated with saline, LPS Corn-soybean meal basal diets group treated with lipopolysaccharide, BAO + LPS Corn-soybean meal basal diets + 5 kg/t benzoic acid + 500 g/t essential oils group treated with lipopolysaccharide
^a,bMean values within a row with different letters differ at P < 0.05

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