Table 1 Effect of maternal and post-weaning treatment on the concentrations of short chain fatty acids (mmol/kg digesta) in the offspring ileal digesta on day 8 post-weaning.

From: Maternal and/or post-weaning supplementation with Bacillus altitudinis spores modulates the microbial composition of colostrum, digesta and faeces in pigs

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Treatment

SEM

P values

CON/CON

CON/PRO

PRO/CON

PRO/PRO

Maternal

Post-weaning

Maternalā€‰Ć—ā€‰Post-weaning

SCFA

12.35

15.04

12.63

15.30

2.571

0.915

0.302

0.988

VFA

4.27

4.22

3.85

5.68

1.553

0.791

0.602

0.582

BCFA

0.121

0.104

0.128

0.119

0.0028

0.646

0.574

0.840

Lactic acid

8.08

8.91

8.79

9.63

1.382

0.611

0.550

0.984

Acetic acid

3.41

5.96

2.52

5.32

1.295

0.499

0.041

0.761

Propionic acid

0.029

0.012

0.000

0.042

0.0396

0.984

0.983

0.980

Butyric acid

0.097

0.103

0.124

0.244

0.0446

0.085

0.241

0.335

Valeric acid

0.040

0.044

0.045

0.01

0.0109

0.108

0.099

0.069

  1. SCFA short chain fatty acid, VFA volatile fatty acids, BCFA branched chain fatty acids; Differences between treatments are significant for Pā€‰ā‰¤ā€‰0.05, while 0.05ā€‰<ā€‰Pā€‰<ā€‰0.10 is a tendency towards significance.
  2. Treatments are as follows (maternal treatment/post-weaning treatment): CON/CON, CON/PRO, PRO/CON and PRO/PRO; where CON isĀ control and PRO isĀ probiotic.
  3. Statistical analysis was performed using the GLIMMIX procedure of SAS 9.4 and the ilink function was used to back-transform the data to the original scale. The model included the effects of maternal and post-weaning treatment as fixed effects and their associated interaction. The individual pig was the experimental unit. The least square means were compared between the treatment groups using the t test and the P-values were corrected for multiple comparisons using the Tukey adjustment.
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