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Effects of Dietary Supplementation with Tea Residue on Growth Performance, Digestibility, and Diarrhea in Piglets

Version 1 : Received: 7 December 2023 / Approved: 8 December 2023 / Online: 11 December 2023 (02:52:17 CET)

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Wang, C.; Zhong, Y.; Liu, H.; Wang, H.; Li, Y.; Wang, Q.; Li, J.; Huang, P.; Yang, H. Effects of Dietary Supplementation with Tea Residue on Growth Performance, Digestibility, and Diarrhea in Piglets. Animals 2024, 14, 584. Wang, C.; Zhong, Y.; Liu, H.; Wang, H.; Li, Y.; Wang, Q.; Li, J.; Huang, P.; Yang, H. Effects of Dietary Supplementation with Tea Residue on Growth Performance, Digestibility, and Diarrhea in Piglets. Animals 2024, 14, 584.

Abstract

Thirty-six healthy 21-day-old weaned ternary piglets (Duroc × Landrace × Yorkshire) were randomly divided into 2 treatments with 18 replicates per treatment and 1 pig per replicate. The control group was fed with basal diet and the test group was fed with diets supplemented with 1 kg/t tea residue. The test period was 28 days. The results are as follows: The addition of tea residue in the diet has no significant effect on the growth performance of weaned piglets (P > 0.05), but it could significantly reduce the diarrhea rate of piglets from 1 to 7 days and 1 to 28 days (P < 0.05). Compared with the control group, the dietary supplementation of tea residue had no significant effect on nutrient apparent digestibility, plasma biochemical indexes and plasma immune indexes (P > 0.05), but increased the content of glutathione in plasma (P < 0.05). Tea residue had no significant effect on the morphology of jejunum and ileum of piglets (P > 0.05), but it could significantly reduce the content of chloride ion in feces (P < 0.05). Compared with the basal diet group, there was no significant difference in the relative expression of TMEM16A and CFTR mRNA in the colon of weaned piglets (P > 0.05). The whole-cell patch clamp recording showed that the TMEM16A and CFTR ion channels could be activated by ionomycin and forskolin, respectively. However, when the HT-29 cells transfected with TMEM16A and CFTR channels were treated with tea residue extract, it could significantly inhibit the chloride current of the TMEM16A and CFTR ion channels (P < 0.05).

Keywords

tea residue; weaned piglets; intestinal health; chloride channels; diarrhea; immune

Subject

Biology and Life Sciences, Animal Science, Veterinary Science and Zoology

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