“…Our previous studies showed that CNP possessed diverse biological activities, including antibacterial (Du, Xu, Xu, & Fan, 2008), antitumour (Qi, Xu, & Chen, 2007), anti-angiogenesis (Xu, Wen, & Xu, 2010) and immunological adjuvant activities (Wen, Xu, Zou, & Xu, 2011). Recently, we found that CNP could protect the Caco-2 cells, a model of human enterocytes, from LPS-induced cell membrane damage (Tu, Xu, Xu, Ling, & Cai, 2016), indicating that CNP might exhibit anti-inflammatory effects and could be used as a feed additive for weaning piglets to reduce the weaning stress.…”