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. 2012 Apr;25(4):569–576. doi: 10.5713/ajas.2011.11425

Table 6.

Effects of dietary Forsythia suspensa extract (FSE) supplement on serum growth hormone and IGF- I concentrations (ng/ml) in broilers

Items Treatments SEM p value

NC FC PC
Growth hormone (ng/ml)
 d 21 6.20 6.27 5.85 0.39 0.91
 d 42 4.24 5.01 4.19 3.63 0.63
Insulin-like growth factor-I (ng/ml)
 d 21 209.63 209.04 217.22 0.37 0.61
 d 42 206.31 228.48 180.66 9.48 0.12