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Table 4.

Effects of medium-chain fatty acid triglycerides supplementation on serum antioxidant and oxidative stress indices, and endotoxin LPS of finishing bulls

Items^e	Dietary treatment^f				SEM^g	P-value
Items^e	CON	C8	C10	C12	SEM^g	P-value
TAOC (U/mL)	7.50^c	8.21^bc	9.13^ab	9.87^a	0.607	0.032
SOD (U/mL)	49.49^b	57.12^b	68.22^ab	82.72^a	7.855	0.024
Catalase (U/mL)	33.42^d	41.99^c	46.23^b	53.69^a	1.124	< 0.001
GHS-PX (U/mL)	115.78^b	142.97^b	205.95^a	220.70^a	15.508	0.001
GR (U/L)	3.65^c	5.21^b	6.04^a	6.72^a	0.326	< 0.001
H₂O₂ (U/mL)	56.08^a	50.35^ab	44.60^bc	39.30^c	3.025	0.007
Malondialdehyde (nmol/mL)	4.14^a	3.66^b	3.17^c	2.32^d	0.189	< 0.001
NO (µmol/L)	49.75^c	49.76^c	55.42^b	59.65^a	0.817	< 0.001
ROS (Fluorescence intensity/mL)	1150.09^a	986.48^b	686.51^c	511.23^d	44.987	< 0.001
LPS (EU/mL)	1.131^a	1.040^a	0.698^b	0.868^ab	0.145	0.033

^a⁻^dMeans bearing different superscripts in the same row differ significantly (P-value < 0.05)

^eT-AOC total antioxidant capacity, SOD superoxide dismutase, GSH-PX glutathione peroxidase, GR glutathione reductase, H₂O₂ hydrogen peroxide, NO nitric oxide, ROS reactive oxygen species, LPS lipopolysaccharides

^fCON the control group cattle fed control diets, C8, the treatment group cattle fed control diets containing glycerol monocaprylin; C10, the treatment group cattle fed control diets containing glycerol monodecanoate; C12, the treatment group cattle fed control diets containing glycerol monolaurate

^gSEM, standard error of the means