Table 1 Effect of glycerol supplementation on the metabolic activity of chicken cecal microbiota during in vitro F1
Reactors | Concentration (mM) ± SD | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Acetate | Butyrate | Propionate | Succinate | Valerate | 1,3 – PDO | Total BCFAs | Total metabolites | |
CR | ||||||||
 Treatment | 75.2 ± 0.9 | 26.7 ± 2.6 | 17.9 ± 0.3 | 2.7 ± 0.6 | 3.5 ± 1.3 | 0.0 ± 0.0 | 13.4 ± 0.1 | 139.4 ± 4.4 |
50G | ||||||||
 Treatment | 63.0 ± 4.8 | 38.5 ± 5.2 | 13.4 ± 1.3 | 1.7 ± 0.2 | 4.3 ± 0.9 | 19.0 ± 0.4 | 10.8 ± 0.2 | 151.1 ± 2.9 |
 Delta | - 12.2 |  + 11.7 | - 4.5 | - 0.9 |  + 0.8 |  + 19.0 | - 2.5 |  + 11.7 |
 P value with CR | 0.0128 | 0.0240 | 0.0049 | 0.0745 | 0.4453 | - | 0.0001 | 0.0187 |
100G | ||||||||
 Treatment | 58.5 ± 0.8 | 46.7 ± 6.0 | 11.5 ± 1.3 | 5.4 ± 2.3 | 5.2 ± 1.0 | 49.4 ± 0.7 | 11.8 ± 0.3 | 188.7 ± 7.4 |
 Delta | - 16.7 |  + 19.9 | - 6.4 |  + 2.7 |  + 1.7 |  + 49.4 | - 1.5 |  + 49.3 |
 P value with CR | 0.000018 | 0.0062 | 0.0013 | 0.1261 | 0.1529 | - | 0.0030 | 0.0005 |