Exocrine Pancreatic Maturation in Pre-term and Term Piglets Supplemented With Bovine Colostrum.

Although this did not reach statistical significance, it is in line with the observations from trypsin and amylase, that term piglets are responsive to stimulation from enteral nutrition, while pre-term pigs are not.

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Pancreatic lipase activity was high at birth, for both pre-term and term pigs, and showed a trend to decrease until reaching the lowest levels at either 5 or 26 days of age ( Figure 3 , middle-bottom graph).

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We found that pancreatic lipase levels were highest at birth, especially in pre-term pigs, with a decreasing trend in the post-natal period for both pre-term and term pigs, which was inverse to the development of trypsin.

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