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Table 4 Stomach weight and surface area of different regions

From: Dietary inclusion of fibrous corn silages reduces gastric mucosa damage in fattening heavy pigs

 

DIETS1

RMSE

P value

CTR

SIL

Stomach traits

 Empty weight, g

1106

1222

56.09

 < 0.01

 Total area, cm2

895.0

934.2

87.00

0.461

 Density, g/cm2

1.24

1.31

0.10

0.254

Stomach areas, % of total

 Oesophageal

4.60

5.63

0.51

 < 0.01

 Cardiac

24.57

24.70

1.87

0.730

 Fundic

50.19

46.23

1.74

 < 0.01

 Pyloric

20.99

23.16

2.28

0.143

  1. 1 CTR = Control diet with 0% corn silages; SIL = Diet containing whole ear corn silage and whole plant corn silage (20 and 10% on a DM basis, respectively)
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