Effect of Probiotics on Blood Biochemical Profile, Immunity and Small Intestine Morphology in Growing Finishing Pigs

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• 作者：D. K. Mishra ; A. K. Verma ; N. Agarwal ; Putan Singh
• 关键词：Probiotic ; Immunity ; Intestine morphology ; Weaned piglets ; Saccharomyces cerevisiae ; Lactobacillus acidophilus
• 刊名：Agricultural Research
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：December 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：5
• 期：4
• 页码：407-412
• 全文大小：348 KB
• 刊物主题：Cell Biology; Plant Ecology; Plant Genetics & Genomics; Plant Sciences; Biodiversity; Plant Biochemistry;
• 出版者：Springer India
• ISSN：2249-7218
• 卷排序：5

文摘

An experiment was conducted to study the effects of probiotics (Saccharomyces cerevisiae NCDC 49 and Lactobacillus acidophilus-15) on blood biochemical profile, immunity and small intestine morphology in growing finishing pigs, weaned at 28 days of age. Thirty-six cross-bred (Landrace X Desi) piglets were allocated to three treatments on the basis of the body weight in a completely randomized design. Each treatment was comprised of four replicates with three piglets in each. The three dietary treatments were: basal diet without any probiotic (Control), basal diet where 10 % of feed was replaced by feed fermented with S. cerevisiae NCDC 49 with the count of 3–5 × 106 cfu/g (SC) and basal diet with 10 % of feed fermented with L. acidophilus-15 with the count of 2–3 × 109 cfu/g (LA). The results showed that probiotic supplementation had no effect (P > 0.05) on blood biochemical profile. Antibody titre against 20 % SRBC injection was significantly higher in probiotic-supplemented groups than control. Villus height and villus height/crypt depth ratio of jejunum were increased (P < 0.01) in SC and LA groups as compared to control. It is concluded that inclusion of probiotics at 10 % level of the basal diet improved the immunity and intestinal morphology of growing finishing pigs weaned at 28 days of age.