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).