Levedura hidrolisada como fonte de nucleotídeos para leitões recém desmamados / Hidrolyzed yeast as source of nucleotides for weanling pigs
AUTOR(ES)
Carla de Andrade
DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO
2010
RESUMO
The purpose of this work was to evaluate the effects of dietary nucleotide levels on performance, organs morphometry and intestinal histology of weanling pigs. One hundred and forty-four pigs weaned at 21 days of age and 5.80 ± .16 kg initial live weight were used a completely randomized design experiment with six treatments, six replications per treatment and four animals per pen (experimental unit). The treatments were: Am antimicrobial: basal diet with 40 ppm of colistin sulfate and basal diet with 0, 150, 300, 450 and 600 ppm of nucleotides. At the end of experimental period, an animal of each pen was slaughtered to evaluate of organs morphometry and intestinal epithelium histology. For the 1 to 14 days of experimental period, dietary nucleotides depressed linearly (P<.01) performance traits, while for the total experimental period of 34 days linear reduction of final live weight (P=.03) was observed with added nucleotides. Pigs fed diet with colistin showed greater (P<.01) length of small intestine and lower (P<.01) villus height:crypt depth ratio (AV:PC) of duodenum than those fed nucleotides. Also, a linear increase (P<.01) of relative weight of spleen, as well as a linear reduction (P<.01) of AV:PC and linear reduction (P<.01) of crypt depth of duodenum were observed with added dietary nucleotides. Therefore, although added nucleotides up to 600 ppm in complex diet did not improve performance, they showed some beneficial effects on organs morphometry and intestinal epithelium histology of weanling pigs.
ASSUNTO(S)
animal feed desmame nucleotides. pigs performance additives morphometry morfometria histology leveduras histologia yeast aditivos alimentares nucleotídeos. weaning dieta animal leitões - desempenho
