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Fourty-eight 24-day-old weaning piglets (Duroc \u00d7 Landrace \u00d7 Yorkshire, weaned at 22 \u00b1 1 d) with an initial body weight of 6.76 \u00b1 0.15 kg were randomly assigned to one of four dietary treatments with six replicates per treatment and two pigs per replicate: (1) NL (adding 7.5% water before corn extrusion, negative treatment with low moisture); (2) NH (adding 15.0% water before corn extrusion, negative treatment with high moisture); (3) PL (adding 7.5% water and 4 kg\/t \u03b1-amylase before corn extrusion, positive treatment with low moisture); and (4) PH (adding 15% water and 4 kg\/t \u03b1-amylase before corn extrusion, positive treatment with high moisture). Results showed that amylase supplementation (4 vs. 0 kg\/t) increased the contents of small molecular oligosaccharides of extruded corn (p &lt; 0.05). Amylase supplementation significantly improved the average daily feed intake, apparent total tract digestibility (ATTD) of dry matter, crude protein, gross energy, crude fat, ash, phosphorus, and calcium, and also increased the activities of jejunal trypsin, \u03b1-amylase, lipase, sucrase, maltase, \u03b3-glutamyl transferase and alkaline phosphatase activities, improved the duodenal, jejunal and ileal morphology, and increased the relative mRNA expressions of the ZO-1, OCLN, SGLT1, and GLUT2 genes in the jejunum (p &lt; 0.05), whereas it decreased the contents of isobutyric acid in cecal digesta, as well as acetic acid and isobutyric acid in colonic digesta (p &lt; 0.05). Moreover, the linear discriminant analysis effect size (LEfSe) showed that piglets fed extruded corn with added enzymes contained less intestinal pathogenic bacteria, such as Holdemanella and Desulfovibrio, compared with piglets fed just extruded corn. In summary, the results of the present study indicated that the supplementation of \u03b1-amylase during the conditioning and extruding process of corn increased the small molecular oligosaccharide content of corn starch. 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