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Ten newborn normal birth-weight (NBW) piglets and LBW piglets from 10 primiparous sows with the same parturition day were selected and sampled immediately without sucking colostrum. The small intestine tissues were collected and measured. Compared with NBW newborn piglets, LBW newborn piglets had a significantly decreased length and weight of the small intestine (p &lt; 0.05) as well as the villus height\/crypt depth (V\/C) index in the jejunum (p &lt; 0.05). Furthermore, LBW piglets had a lower gene expression of tight junction protein zonula occluden-1 (ZO1), claudin 1, antioxidant enzyme catalase (CAT), glutathione peroxidase (GPX) and heme oxygenase-1 (HO-1) in jejunum (p &lt; 0.05). Meanwhile, LBW induced mitochondrial vacuolation and significantly decreased the mRNA expression of PPAR\u03b3 coactivator-1\u03b1 (PGC-1\u03b1) (p &lt; 0.05) and tended to decrease the expression of cytochrome coxidase IV (Ccox IV) (p = 0.07) and cytochrome C (Cytc) (p = 0.08). 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