Dietary supplementation with Acanthopanax senticosus extract modulates cellular and humoral immunity in weaned piglets
Dietary supplementation with Acanthopanax senticosus extract modulates cellular and humoral immunity in weaned piglets
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10.5713/ajas.2007.1453
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2007-09-01
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Kim, Sungwoo
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Kong, Xiangfeng;Yin, Yulong;Kim, Sungwoo
This study was conducted to test the hypothesis that dietary supplementation with an herbal extract of Acanthopanax senticosus (AS) enhances the immune response in weaned piglets. Sixty piglets weaned at 21 days of age were randomly assigned to 3 treatment groups representing the addition of 0 or 1 g/kg of the AS extract or 0.2 g/kg of colistin (an antibiotic) to maize- and soybean meal-based diets (n = 20 per group). On days 7, 14 and 28 after initiation of the addition, total and differential counts of leucocytes, proliferating activity of peripheral lymphocytes, serum levels of immunoglobulins (Ig) and cytokines and the spleen index were determined. The AS extract decreased (p