Long-term feeding with high plant protein based diets in gilthead seabream (Sparus aurata, L.) leads to changes in the inflammatory and immune related gene expression at intestinal level

Table 6 Dietary effect on the histomorphology of the foregut of gilthead seabream

	FM	VM	VM+	SEM	p-values
Serous layer (μm)	50.3	52.9	61.7	5.2	0.1275
Muscular layer (μm)	58.4	56.6	55.8	5.4	0.8000
Submucosa layer (μm)	44.3	40.4	43.0	4.5	0.6689
Villi length (μm)	621.7	512.2	568.7	57.4	0.2545
Villi thickness (μm)	101.1^a	85.2^b	93.4^ab	4.1	0.0009
Lamina propria (μm)	14.2^a	9.9^b	14.0^a	1.3	0.0001
Goblet cells	3.2	4.4	4.9	1.1	0.1222

Means were calculated from the average mean of each sample (n = 6). Data in the same row with different superscript letters differ at p < 0.05
SEM Standard error of the mean

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