The Effect of Maternal Diet with Fish Oil on Oxidative Stress and Inflammatory Response in Sow and New-Born Piglets

Table 1

Ingredient composition of diets (as fed basis, %).

	Gestation diet 1 (%)		Gestation diet 2 (%)
	SD	FD	SD	FD
Corn	35.73	35.73	45.35	45.35
Barley	30.00	30.00	25.00	25.00
Soybean hull	5.00	5.00
Soybean meal	18.50	18.50	16.00	16.00
Fermented soybean meal	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00
Dried porcine soluble (DPS)			2.00	2.00
Soybean oil	3.00	0.50	3.50	0.70
Fish oil		2.50		2.80
Calcium hydrogen phosphate	1.30	1.30	1.40	1.40
Limestone	1.00	1.00	1.20	1.20
NaCl	0.35	0.35	0.35	0.35
L-Threonine (98% threonine)			0.03	0.03
L-Lysine HCl (98% lysine)	0.10	0.10	0.15	0.15
Minerals and vitamins premix^1	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00
Antioxidant^2	0.02	0.02	0.02	0.02
Total	100	100	100	100

SD=soybean oil diet; FD=fish oil diet. ¹The composition of this mineral and vitamin premix (Shanghai Xinnong Feed Co. Ltd., Shanghai, China) was supplied per kg of diet as follows: retinol, 8750 IU; cholecalciferol, 2835 IU; α-tocopherol, 84 mg; menadione, 5.96 mg; thiamine, 1.85 mg; riboflavin, 6.57 mg; niacin, 37.6 mg; D-pantothenic acid, 29.2 mg; pyridoxine, 4.2 mg; D-biotin, 0.43 mg; folic acid, 2.5 mg; vitamin B-12, 0.04 mg; choline chloride, 500 mg; Fe, 212 mg as ferrous sulfate monohydrate; Cu, 30 mg as copper sulfate pentahydrate; Mn, 30 mg as manganese sulfate monohydrate; Zn, 144 mg as zinc sulfate monohydrate; I, 1 mg as calcium iodate; and Se, 0.3 mg as sodium selenite. ²Antioxidant includes 66% ethoxyquin.