The influence of iron nutrition on the development of intestine and immune cell divergency in neonatal pigs

Table 4 Effects of different doses of iron dextran on tissue iron deposition of neonatal pigs at d 18

Item	FeDex, mg				SEM¹	P value
Item	0	200	800	1,600	SEM¹	P value
Iron concentration, μg/g
Liver	68.94^d	215.03^c	1,214.40^b	1,372.90^a	126.13	< 0.01
Spleen	258.20^c	432.50^c	1521.60^b	2,788.40^a	376.94	< 0.01
Duodenum	54.17^c	61.87^c	86.85^b	126.74^a	17.32	< 0.01
Jejunum	60.52^c	66.15^c	100.12^b	145.20^a	23.47	< 0.01
Cecum	78.18^c	111.61^b	124.62^b	149.87^a	28.82	< 0.01

¹SEM Standard error of the means
^a−dValues in the same row with different superscripts letters are significantly different (P < 0.05)

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