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From: In ovo sodium butyrate administration differentially impacts growth performance, intestinal barrier function, immune response, and gut microbiota characteristics in low and high hatch-weight broilers

Fig. 3

The relative expression of gut barrier and immune-related genes in the ileal mucosa of high (HHW) and low (LHW) hatch weight chickens on d 14 (A) and d 42 (B) that had received 3 levels of sodium butyrate in ovo (SB1: 0.1%, SB3: 0.3%, SB5: 0.5%) or 0.9% NaCl (control) in ovo. Two-way ANOVA was applied to determine the fold change of the relative expression of genes (n = 6 birds/group) and P values are indicated by different letters corresponding to P (HW), P (SB), and P (HW×SB). a–dValues with different letters indicate statistical significance at P < 0.05

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Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology

ISSN: 2049-1891