Absorption of Polyunsaturated Fatty Acid (PUFA) Is Related to IgG Blood Levels of Neonatal Pigs during the First 48 Hours Postpartum

Table 1

IgG concentrations in swine and bovine colostrum, swine serum, and swine and human Ig preparations. Newborn nonsuckled piglets (NB) (); piglets fed for 48 hours with infant formula (IF), (). Piglets fed for 48 hours with either only swine colostrum (S-Col) () or only bovine colostrum (B-Col) (). Piglets fed infant formula supplemented i.u.a. with either swine serum (IF-SS) (), swine immunoglobulins (IF-Ig S) (), or human immunoglobulins (IF-Ig H) ().

Group	Dose (mg/kg bwt)
	Swine IG	Bovine IG	Human IG
NB 0 h	NA	NA	NA
IF	NA	NA	NA
S-Col	6052.80	NA	NA
B-Col	NA	6549.60	NA
IF+SS	403.52	NA	NA
IF+IgS	1540.08	NA	NA
IF +IgH	NA	NA	2500

NA: not applicable.