Effect of dietary zinc oxide on morphological characteristics, mucin composition and gene expression in the colon of weaned piglets

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Liu, Ping ^a   Pieper, Robert ^a   Rieger, Juliane ^a   Vahjen, Wilfried ^a   Davin, Roger ^b   Plendl, Johanna ^a   Meyer, Wilfried ^c   Zentek, Jürgen ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 8; MESSENGER RNA; MUCIN; MUCIN 1; MUCIN 13; MUCIN 2; MUCIN 20; SIALOMUCIN; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 2; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 4; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZINC OXIDE; CYTOKINE;

ACIDITY; AGE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COLITIS; COLON; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GOBLET CELL; HOST RESISTANCE; INNATE IMMUNITY; INTESTINE CRYPT; MORPHOMETRICS; NONHUMAN; PIGLET; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; SIALYLATION; SULFATION; TISSUE STRUCTURE; WEANING; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; DIET; DRUG EFFECTS; GENETICS; METABOLISM; STAINING; SWINE;

ANIMALS; COLON; CYTOKINES; DIET; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GOBLET CELLS; MUCINS; RNA, MESSENGER; STAINING AND LABELING; SUS SCROFA; WEANING; ZINC OXIDE;

EID: 84897464681     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0091091     Document Type: Article

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