Table 2.

Effects of prenatal and growing thermal environments of pigs on plasma components determined at slaughter

	Thermal environment
	Prenatal1		Growing1			P-value2
	PTN	PHS	GTN	GHS	RMSE	PE	GE	PE × GE
n	24	24	24	24
Glucose, µmol/mL	5.98	5.72	6.26	5.44	0.48	0.176	0.002	0.933
Lactate, µmol/mL	8.05	5.47	6.71	6.82	0.22	0.075	0.938	0.521
Creatine kinase, U/mL	8.68	7.51	6.37	9.82	0.29	0.335	0.271	0.528

¹Least square means estimated from raw data. PTN, prenatal thermoneutral environment; PHS, prenatal heat stress; GTN, growing thermoneutral environment; GHS, growing heat stress.

² P-values of the fixed effects of prenatal thermal environment (PE), growing thermal environment (GE), and their interaction (PE × GE), and RMSE (root mean square error of the model) obtained from mixed model in which sire, sow (within PE), pen (within PE × GE), and slaughter day were included as random effects, and applied to raw data (glucose) or to log values to fit a normal distribution of residues (lactate, creatine kinase).