Table 1.

Geometric means and 95% lower (LCI) and upper (UCI) confidence intervals of uterine PMN percentage and concentrations of serum amyloid A and α1-acid glycoprotein for cows in the saline (SAL; n = 18) and bacteria (BACT; n = 18) infusion groups from d 3 to 17 postinfusion

Item	SAL			BACT			P-value1
	Mean	LCI	UCI	Mean	LCI	UCI	Infuse	Day	Infuse × Day
Uterine PMN (%)							<0.001	<0.01	0.18
d 3	2.2	0.93	4.40	5.7	2.72	11.19
d 7	1.4	0.46	3.07	5.4	2.53	10.55
d 11	1.8	0.69	3.74	12.7	6.44	24.15
d 17	1.0	0.15	2.39	1.8	0.47	4.32
Serum amyloid A (μg/mL)							0.27	<0.001	0.18
d 3	46.8	30.28	71.98	73.5	43.18	124.75
d 7	16.5	10.45	25.71	15.2	8.61	26.37
d 11	4.3	2.45	7.06	9.6	5.27	16.84
d 17	15.4	9.46	24.69	11.4	6.00	21.00
α1-Acid glycoprotein (mg/mL)							0.73	<0.05	0.68
d 3	0.77	0.626	0.917	0.67	0.503	0.851
d 7	0.90	0.749	1.063	1.00	0.799	1.216
d 11	0.76	0.619	0.909	0.79	0.612	0.985
d 17	0.70	0.556	0.854	0.76	0.573	0.976

¹P-values presented for effect of uterine infusion group (Infuse), day postinfection (Day), and the interaction of infusion group and day postinfusion (Infuse × Day) in the repeated measures mixed models.