Effect of dietary supplementation with glutamate on morphological characteristics in intestinal tissues in pigs fed experimental diets.

The treatments consisted of a control group (n = 5) receiving uncontaminated feed, a mycotoxin group (n = 5) receiving mould-contaminated diet, and the glutamate group (n = 5) receiving mould-contaminated diet and 2% glutamate. Villus height and crypt depth were measured using an image-analysis system. Among these indexes, Ileum C/V means the ration of ileal villus height to crypt depth and Jejunum C/V means the ration of jejunal villus height to crypt depth. The data with different letters in the same row differ significantly (P0.05).Effect of dietary supplementation with glutamate on morphological characteristics in intestinal tissues in pigs fed experimental diets.