Table 5.

Average concentrations of inflammatory markers in plasma of neonatal calves before colostrum intake

Variable	Treatment1			SEM	P-value
	CTL	FLX	FO
IL-2, pg/mL	372.7ab	427.6a	329.9b	22.76	0.020
IL-6, pg/mL	209.5a	179.6b	162.6b	7.66	0.001
Haptoglobin, ng/mL	27.0	24.5	26.0	6.89	0.960

¹Blood samples were collected immediately after calving from calves born to dairy cows fed from d 257 of pregnancy with (i) CTL – encapsulated saturated fat, (ii) FLX – encapsulated flaxseed oil providing ALA, or (iii) FO – encapsulated fish oil providing EPA and DHA

IL-2 Interleukin 2, IL-6 Interleukin 6

^a,bValues with different superscript letters in a row are significantly different at P ≤ 0.05