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Effect of Compound Organic Acid in Drinking Water on Intestinal Mucosal Morphology and Visceral Organ Development of Weaning Rex Rabbit
ZHU Ke-hua, XU Xiu-rong, TANG Ji-liang, ZHANG Yu-kun, SUN De-fa
JOURNAL OF DOMESTIC ANIMAL ECOLOGY
2012, 33 (2 ):
60-64.
In this study,40 weaning rex rabbits were used to investigate the effect of compound organic acid in drinking water on intestinal mucosal morphology and visceral organ development. The weight of visceral organ and villous height (VH), crypt depth (CD), intestinal wall thickness ( IWT) and villous height/crypt depth (VH/CD) were measured at the 35th day after weaning.20 male and 20 female rabbits with similar weight, 35 days old, were randomly divided into four groups:group A , group B, group C and group D. Each rabbit was treated as one repeat. group A was the control group, drinking ordinary tap water. The pH of drinking water in group B, C and D was 5.0, 4.3 and 3.6, respectively. To get the required pH, compound acid was added to the ordinary tap water in group B,C and D by 0.55%, 0.85% and 3.3%.The results showed that drinking acidification water can significantly improve the spleen weight,spleen index and duodenum VH (P<0.05), and significantly reduce jejunum IWT, and for group C,the best result was reached with pH 4.3 in water;for group D water with pH3.6 reduced ileum IWT significantly (P<0.05). Drinking acidification water improved the weight of visceral organs and the organs index in other experimental groups, but there is no significant difference compared with the control group (P>0.05). Drinking acidification water also improved jejunum and ileum morphology to some extent, and the group with pH 4.3 showed more improvement, but there was no significant difference (P>0.05).It showed that acidification drinking water improved the development of the visceral organs and intestinal morphology to some extent, and the one with pH 4.3 showed the best performance.
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