Effect of in vivo exposure of piglets to ZEA on anti-inflammatory cytokine gene expressions in spleen tissue.

aPigs were fed for 18 days with a control diet or a diet contaminated with ZEA. At the end of the experiment, spleen samples from all animals (n = 5) were collected and analyzed for cytokine mRNA expression by quantitative Real-Time PCR.bresults are expressed as fold changes (Fc) after normalization of the expression of target cytokine gene to the arithmetic mean of 2 internally expressed reference genes (mean ± SEM).cAnova-one way followed by Ficher tests were realized to analyze the effect of ZEA treatment on cytokine mRNA expression. Values of P Effect of in vivo exposure of piglets to ZEA on anti-inflammatory cytokine gene expressions in spleen tissue.