Saccharomyces yeast postbiotics mitigate mucosal damages from F18+ Escherichia coli challenges by positively balancing the mucosal microbiota in the jejunum of young pigs

Table 2 Relative gene expression in jejunal tissue of nursery pigs fed diets supplemented with Saccharomyces yeast postbiotics

Item	Treatment^a				P value
Item	NC	PC	SYP	SEM	NC versus PC	PC versus SYP
Toll-like receptor 2	1.12	1.00	1.07	0.20	0.684	0.819
Toll-like receptor 4	0.99	3.00	0.86	0.62	0.029	0.021
NOD^b1	1.03	1.02	1.17	0.15	0.964	0.511
NOD2	1.05	1.11	1.03	0.12	0.746	0.529
Mammalian target of rapamycin	1.18	1.00	1.32	0.13	0.278	0.035
Claudin	1.97	1.97	2.34	0.75	0.996	0.735
Occludin	1.02	1.26	1.24	0.09	0.061	0.836
Zonula occludens-1	1.01	1.00	1.01	0.07	0.892	0.963

^aNC, basal diet (no supplementation); PC, NC + challenged with F18⁺ E. coli; SYP, NC + Saccharomyces yeast postbiotics (175 g/ton of feed) + challenged with F18⁺ E. coli
^bNOD, Nucleotide binding oligomerization domain containing

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