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. 2012 Oct;25(10):1389–1394. doi: 10.5713/ajas.2012.12229

Table 4.

Total and differential protozoa population (per ml) with and without PEG from sheanut cake, expeller and solvent extractions with PEG-6000 in vitro

SN-cake SN- expeller SN-solvent extracted SEM p
Entodinia (105)
 Small 0.172 b 0.162 a 0.158 a 0.028 0.0502
  With PEG 0.183 a 0.185 b 0.170 a 0.021 0.0464
 Large 0.060 0.054 0.057 0.001 0.0658
  With PEG 0.074 0.071 0.061 0.001 0.0560
Holotricha (105)
 Isotricha 0.009 0.007 0.009 0.001 0.0654
  With PEG 0.005 0.006 0.012 0.001 0.1256
 Dasytricha 0.003 0.002 0.005 0.001 0.1547
  With PEG 0.003 0.004 0.006 0.001 0.1635
Total (105) 0.243 0.226 0.229 0.025 0.0496
 With PEG 0.264 b 0.265 b 0.248 a 0.035 0.0469

SN-cake = Sheanut cake; SN-expeller = Sheanut expeller; SN-solvent extracted = Sheanut solvent extracted; PEG = polyethylene glycol. Means in a row with different superscript differ significantly (p<0.05).