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SUBMITTER: Van Noten N
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7070699 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Van Noten Noémie N Degroote Jeroen J Van Liefferinge Elout E Taminiau Bernard B De Smet Stefaan S Desmet Tom T Michiels Joris J
Animals : an open access journal from MDPI 20200219 2
The present study evaluated gluco-conjugation as a measure to delay thymol absorption and enhance its antimicrobial activity in the gut of weaned piglets. The three dietary treatments consisted of a basal diet without additives (T<sub>CON</sub>), supplemented with thymol at 3.7 mmol/kg dry matter (T<sub>THY</sub>), or with an equimolar amount of thymol α-D-glucopyranoside (T<sub>TαG</sub>). Each dietary treatment was replicated in 6 pens with 2 piglets per pen (<i>n</i> = 12 for analytical param ...[more]