. 2023 Aug 20;102(11):103046. doi: 10.1016/j.psj.2023.103046

Table 7.

Effect of dietary β-carotene with different supplemental levels on the content of carotenoids and retinoids in tissue sample.

Compounds	Control	BC15	BC30	BC60	BC120
Liver (μg/g)
β-Carotene	-¹	1.67 ± 3.01^c	2.30 ± 0.25^c	7.97 ± 0.61^b	16.90 ± 1.64^a
Retinol	4.55 ± 0.41^b	5.64 ± 0.37^ab	5.72 ± 0.30^a	5.84 ± 0.48^a	4.76 ± 0.21^ab
Retinyl palmitate	671.86 ± 53.45^d	1009.90 ± 141.68^cd	1533.77 ± 230.92^c	2964.74 ± 189.29^b	3606.41 ± 276.08^a
Ovary (ng/g)
β-Carotene	-¹	27.04 ± 1.34^c	62.00 ± 4.36^c	70.76 ± 7.34^b	179.61 ± 13.05^a
Retinol	193.64 ± 10.93^b	269.70 ± 14.14^a	263.27 ± 35.28^a	269.13 ± 13.24^a	265.24 ± 15.86^a
Retinyl palmitate	502.64 ± 85.59^d	729.68 ± 38.63^cd	853.76 ± 108.99^bc	1349.50 ± 125.22^a	1114.43 ± 85.38^ab

Means the content of β-carotene was below the limit of quantification of the detection method.

^a,b,c,d

Data points with different letters are significantly different (1-way analysis of variance) at the level of P < 0.05 by Duncan's multiple comparison test.