Research Article
Immune Response of Piglets Receiving Mixture of Formic and Propionic Acid Alone or with Either Capric Acid or Bacillus Licheniformis after Escherichia coli Challenge
Table 4
Effect of organic acid or organic acid supplemented with either capric acid or Bacillus Licheniformis on tumor necrosis factor-α (pg/mL) concentration in plasma of pigs challenged with enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli.
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CON = basal diet; ATB = basal diet plus antibiotics; OA = basal diet plus 1% organic acid; OA + CRA = basal diet plus 1% organic acid + 0.2% capric; OA + PB = basal diet plus 1% organic acid + 0.02% probiotic (3.3×106 viable spores of Bacillus Licheniformis per gram of feed). 1 HPC: hours after challenge. Within per treatment, values at different time points without a common superscript differ significantly at P < 0.05; within per time point, values with different treatments without a common superscript differ significantly at P < 0.05. |