Table 2. Summary of differences in mouse body weight gain at 30 weeks of age, plasma protein levels at 6 months, plasma cholesterol and calcium at 9 months, for Wild Type (WT), transgenic (Tg) groups given either control or Vitamin D mushroom (VDM) feeds.

Measure	WT-control	WT-VDM	Tg-control	Tg-VDM
Body weight gain at 30weeks (mean, sd)	14.8±3.8	12.2±2.9	14.4±6.3	13.6±5.1
Total protein* (g/L, sem)	66.00±3.00	60.75±0.63	62.00±1.47	64.25±0.63
Albumin* (g/L, sem)	43.00±2.00	40.50±0.87	39.50±0.96	41.50±0.96
Globulin* (g/L, sem)	23.00±0	20.25±0.75	26.20±3.76	22.75±0.48
Total cholesterol (mM, sem)#	3.27±0.38	2.73±0.20	2.90±0.75	3.03±0.58
Ca (mM, sem)	2.51±0.03 (b)	2.42±0.02 (a)	2.60±0.03 (b,c)	2.49±0.03 (a)

^*results represent the mean of n = 4 individual mouse sera.

^#results represent the mean of n = 3 individual mouse sera.

a, b, c: different letter indicate significant differences (P<0.05).