Table 3.

Effect of dietary sodium acetate (SA) supplementation on plasma immunoglobulin and prolactin levels of sows.

Item	Treatment group1		SEM	P-value
	CON	SA
Farrowing
IgA, mg/mL	0.41b	1.09a	0.08	<0.001
IgG, mg/mL	1.48b	2.01a	0.15	0.032
IgM, mg/mL	0.14	0.15	0.02	0.692
Prolactin, ng/mg	4.99b	5.87a	0.22	0.021
Day 21 after farrowing
IgA, mg/mL	0.50b	1.31a	0.07	<0.001
IgG, mg/mL	0.77b	1.41a	0.13	0.006
IgM, mg/mL	0.41	0.44	0.04	0.536
Prolactin, ng/mg	4.78b	6.43a	0.35	0.008

IgA = immunoglobulin A; IgG = immunoglobulin G; IgM = immunoglobulin M; SEM = standard error of the mean.

^a,b Different letters indicate significant differences between the 2 data.

¹CON, sows were fed a base diet; SA, sows were fed a basal diet supplemented with 0.1% sodium acetate (n = 6).