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. 2023 Jun 5;102(8):102842. doi: 10.1016/j.psj.2023.102842

Table 7.

Effects of dietary supplementation of ARE on muscle fiber-related gene expression and antioxidants activities in broilers’ muscle.

Treatments
 Statistics
Index1 0% ARE 0.15% ARE 0.30% ARE SEM2 Panova Plinear Pquadratic
PGC1α 1.00b 5.31b 23.92a 2.82 <0.001 <0.001 0.047
MyHC I 1.00b 1.34ab 2.11a 0.19 0.036 0.013 0.531
MyHC IIa 1.00b 4.15a 1.33b 0.48 <0.005 0.715 0.001
MyHC IIb 1.00 0.82 0.85 0.13 0.848 0.650 0.734
PPARγ 1.00c 4.26b 8.11a 0.83 <0.001 <0.001 0.767
Muscle GSH-Px, μmol/g protein 107.25b 136.43a 101.09b 5.71 0.018 0.616 0.006
Muscle SOD, units/mg protein 13.26b 21.54a 22.55a 1.25 0.001 0.001 0.084
a,b,c

Means within a row with different superscripts are different at P < 0.05.

1

Abbreviations: GSH-Px, glutathione peroxidase; MyHC, myosin heavy chain; PGC1α, peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-gamma coactivator; PPARγ, peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-γ; SOD, superoxide dismutase.

2

SEM = standard error of mean, n = 8.