(1) O documento descreve os benefícios de fornecer uma solução isotônica proteica (Px) para leitões recém-nascidos na primeira semana de vida; (2) Estudos demonstraram que a Px melhorou as vilosidades intestinais, reduziu a mortalidade pré-desmame em 26% e aumentou o ganho de peso em até 240g; (3) Ao fornecer nutrientes essenciais e energia para os enterócitos, a Px apoia o desenvolvimento do intestino durante este perí
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colostro é crucial
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15. Função dos Enterócitos
Função Principal: absorver a
lactose, aminoácidos e lipídeos
do colostro e do leite
Precisa haver Na e K para
absorver açúcares e
aminoácidos
Na: sódio
K: potássio
16. Função dos Enterócitos
Função Principal: absorver a lactose,
aminoácidos e lipídeos do colostro e
do leite
Precisa haver Na e K para absorver
açucares e aminoácidos
150,000 bombas de Na /
enterócito
4.5 bilhões de moléculas de
Na transportadas por minuto
por célula
Na: sódio
K: potássio
21. Coleta de Dados
Volume de Px consumido
Peso individual nos dias 1,
8 e desmame (~ d21)
Mortalidade Pré-desmame
Escore de diarreia
Histopatologia Intestinal
22. Análise Estatística
Unidade
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ninhada
Mortalidade
Peso e Ganho
médio diário
Escore de Diarreia
R Core Team (2015). R: A language and environment
for statistical computing. R Foundation for Statistical
Computing, Vienna, Austria. ISBN 3-900051-07-0, URL
http://www.R-project.org
26. Estudo: Pós-desmame
52 ninhadas
Px 500 mL/ninhada/dia do dia 2 ao 8
Mingau pré-desmame
Desmamados no dia 19
Mingau Pós-desmame
Histopatolia nos dias 24 e 28
36. GMD (g/dia)
IPS Controle ∆ P valor
d1 – d8 123 114 ↑ 9 P < 0.1
d1 – d18 158 145 ↑ 13 P < 0.05
7-9% maior do que o controle
37. Conclusões
Fornecendo IPS do dia 2 ao 8 …
Leitões recém nascidos irão tomar a
solução Px imediatamente
Redução de 26% na Mortalidade
Pré-desmame, de 10% para 7%
Aumento no peso de desmame: 240
g
As producers and veterinarians, we face many challenges in pig production. But it all starts with the birth of the piglet. We always want to ask ourselves is there anything we can do to change or improve that first week that will improve the pig’s survival and improve our production outcomes
We know that the first step is to get sufficient colostrum into the piglet.
1st 24 hrs crucial for colostrum intake. high caloric density. pigs get all of their Ig from colostrum – no passive transfer in utero.
Colostrum is important because of the immunoglobulins that it delivers. And it is also high in fat which is a good source of energy. Both of these things are absorbed into the intestine through passive diffusion.
After 24 hours, the immunoglobulins are mostly gone. Lactose – a carbohydrate sugar – becomes the main energy source. And now the piglet’s growth starts.
In one month, the piglet grows the same amount as a child grows in 6 months. And this growth must be accomplished by absorbing nutrients through the small intestine.
All of this is accomplished by absorption of nutrients through the intestine. The intestine is an amazing part of the body. It doesn’t weigh very much – only 5% of the body weight – but it takes 20% of the blood flow with every heart beat. It absorbs everything that keeps us alive except for oxygen. And it has a very important role in protecting us from infections – it contains 50% of the body’s immune cells.
The small intestine is the key area for nutrient absorption. At birth, it is only 40 cm long. But in the first 3 days, the number of cells doubles. In the first 10 days, the surface area doubles. And by 3 weeks the length and surface area has increased 2-3 times. This rapid growth provides an incredible opportunity for early intervention and support. The question is – can we do anything at this time to change things?
Let’s look at it… here is an picture of the lining of the small intestine taken with an endoscope. Fuzzy, like carpet.
If we look closer we see that the intestine is lined with little fingers called villi. The surface of the intestine is not flat. These villi serve to increase the surface area exponentially. Various numbers are quoted about how big the surface area is, but most people agree that in an adult human the surface area is at least 40 square meters.
Here’s a picture of the villi in cross-section, looking through a microscope at relatively low magnification.
If we look even more closely we can see the individual cells that are on the villi. There are 4 main types of cells – today we are interested in the cells that absorb the nutrients, namely enterocytes.
The nutrients must go from the surface, through the enterocyte, and into the blood stream.
The pig must absorb proteins, carbohydrates and fats through these cells in order to build new tissue and grow. In the baby piglet, all of this comes from the sow’s milk or creep feed. We try to feed our sows so they give good milk. We use the best creep feed that we can afford.
But it’s the enterocytes that actually do the work of absorbing the food and nutrients. And this absorption is dependent upon the presence of sodium and potassium to get nutrients into the enterocyte, through the enterocyte and into the blood stream.
This diagram is just a representation… it shows one little gateway. In fact there are about 150,000 gateways per cell. Together they move 4.5 billion sodium molecules PER MINUTE. In each cell!
These enterocytes are working hard. They run their own Krebs cycle in order to produce the energy that they need to do this work. So the question is – what would happen if we devised a way of feeding the enterocytes?
We did. We made a novel isotonic protein supplement that provides sodium potassium chloride and glucose AND provides extra fuel for the enterocytes.
And we needed to test it. The hypothesis was this: if we are successfully feeding the enterocytes, the villi should be bigger. And if we are successfully feeding the enterocytes then we should see better growth and less death…
The experimental treatment was to give 500 mL of IPS to a litter, each day, starting on day 2. For one week. We don’t want to start on day 1 because that might interfere with colostrum uptake.
We collected data on the volume of Px consumed, the individual weights, pre-weaning mortality, scour score and intestinal histopathology.
Histopathology – remember, if we feed the enterocytes we should see bigger villi.
8% larger villi. That might not seem like much, but when you remember that each enterocyte on each villi has 150,000 sodium pumps, that creates a lot of extra power.
It’s normal for the villi to get shorter with age which is why they are in the 200’s instead of 400’s. But Px villi were 291 vs 249, larger by 16%. We looked at all of the variables in this study – gruel, no gruel, IPS vs no IPS – and the differences all related to whether or not the piglets had received IPS in the first week.
this average is based on 4 studies in which volume was measured every day, in a total of 278 litters.
first study we did in late 2015. 212 litters on 2 different farms. Even under study conditions, mortality went from 10% to 7%.
!st four trials (marked with a *) all had a significant difference P < 0.05. Last 2 trials were field trials with producer – all of them showed a reduction in PWM with IPS.
This shows the number of piglets in each trial. Biggest difference was in the smallest trial.
!But meta-analysis gives a weighting to each trial and takes that into account. Overall, we showed a 26% decrease in pre-weaning mortality.
Now remember that the second part of our hypothesis was that feeding the enterocytes should provide better growth. If we give them more energy to do their work, they can absorb more nutrients.
this is from the same study in late 2015. There was no significant difference between the 2 groups on day 1. P value > 0.05. By day 8 we started to see a difference. 60 g, P < 0.1.
But look at what happened by d19…
240 g difference, P 0.05, 5.9% increase.
This increase was supported by increases in average daily gain.
Messages:
The enterocyte is THE key player in nutrition. The forgotten star. The member of the team that does all of the work and gets no recognition.
We have showed that if we feed the enterocyte, it will increase the survival and increase the productivity of our pigs.