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Table 3 Effects of dietary supplementation with avilamycin (AVI) and lysozyme (LYZ) on villi length and crypt depth in broiler chickens

From: Dietary lysozyme and avilamycin modulate gut health, immunity, and growth rate in broilers

Items

Experimental groups

 

p-value

Control

AVI

LYZ

 

Villus height (VH), µm

1084.97 ± 28.78b

1155.19 ± 18.20b

1268.39 ± 45.48a

 

0.001

Crypt depth (CD), µm

214.80 ± 8.37a

184.34 ± 6.93b

198.47 ± 12.49ab

 

0.039

VH/CD

5.20 ± 0.25b

6.52 ± 0.24a

6.69 ± 0.39a

 

0.001

  1. Values bearing different superscript letters within the same row are significantly (p < 0.05) different.
  2. VH, CD and VH/CD analysis were done for 4 replicates (n = 10).
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