Curcumin Improves Adverse Effects of Oxidized Fish Oil on Intestine of Pelteobagrus fulvidraco
This study was conducted to investigate the effects of curcumin on the intestinal digestive enzyme ac-tivities,tissue morphology and microflora structure of Pelteobagrus fulvidraco fed diets containing oxidized fish oil.Six isoproteic and isolipidic diets were prepared which contained 30%fresh fish oil(T1 group),30%oxi-dised fish oil(T2 group),30%oxidized fish oil+0.02%curcumin(T3 group),30%oxidized fish oil+0.04%curcumin(T4 group),30%oxidized fish oil+0.06%curcumin(T5 group)and 30%oxidized fish oil+0.08%curcumin(T6 group).A total of 720 healthy Pelteobagrus fulvidraco with an initial body weight of(19.6±0.3)g were randomly distributed into six groups(four replicates in each group and 30 fish in each rep-licate),which were fed with each of the 6 experimental diets.The feeding trial was lasted for 56 days.The re-sults showed as follows:compared with the T1 group,there was no significant difference in intestinal digestive enzyme activities in the T2 group(P>0.05),but the length of intestinal villi was significantly reduced(P<0.05);at the genus level,the relative abundances of Pseudomonas and Ralstonia were significantly decreased(P<0.05),and the relative abundance of Cetobacterium was significantly increased in the T2 group(P<0.05).Compared with the T2 group,the intestinal trypsin activity,villus width,goblet cell number were sig-nificantly increased in the T6 group(P<0.05),the intestinal lipase activity was significantly increased in the T4 to T6 groups(P<0.05),the intestinal villus length was significantly increased in the T3 to T6 groups(P<0.05),and the intestinal muscular thickness was significantly increased in the T3 and T6 groups(P<0.05);at the genus level,the relative abundances of Clostridium and Candidatus_Arthromitus were significantly increased in the T4 group(P<0.05),the relative abundance of Pseudomonas was significantly increased(P<0.05)and the relative abundance of Cetobacterium was significantly decreased(P<0.05)in the T4 to T6 groups,the rel-ative abundance of Ralstonia was significantly increased in the T5 and T6 groups(P<0.05).As dietary curcu-min supplemental levels increasing,the intestinal lipase activity showed a linear effect(P=0.001),the villi length showed a quadratic effect(P<0.001),the villi width showed a linear effect(P=0.001)and a quadrat-ic effect(P<0.001),and the goblet cell number showed a linear effect(P=0.030)and a quadratic effect(P=0.007);at genus level,the relative abundance of Pseudomonas showed a linear effect(P<0.001)and a quadratic effect(P<0.001),the relative abundance of Cetobacterium showed a linear effect(P=0.001)and a quadratic effect(P=0.001),and the relative abundance of Ralstonia showed a quadratic effect(P<0.001).In conclusion,adding 3%oxidized fish oil in the Pelteobagrus fulvidraco diet induces intestinal tissue structure damage,and adding 0.04%to 0.08%of curcumin can increase the intestinal trypsin and lipase activities as well as the relative abundances of beneficial bacteria Pseudomonas and Candidatus_Arthromitus,and repair the structural damage to intestinal villius of Pelteobagrus fulvidraco induced by oxidized fish oil.[Chinese Journal of Animal Nutrition,2024,36(8):5297-5307]
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