Table 3.
Item | Age | Levels of dietary chitosan mg/kg | SEM | p-value | |||||
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0 | 100 | 500 | 1,000 | 2,000 | Linear | Quadratic | |||
GH (ng/mL) | 14 d | 4.410 | 4.705 | 5.035 | 4.694 | 4.505 | 0.15 | 0.565 | 0.082 |
28 d | 4.266 | 4.366 | 4.806 | 4.440 | 4.187 | 0.15 | 0.401 | 0.087 | |
IGF-1 (ng/mL) | 14 d | 152.601 | 155.381 | 166.699 | 156.385 | 152.979 | 10.14 | 0.802 | 0.747 |
28 d | 156.640 | 158.775 | 160.164 | 158.679 | 157.733 | 10.72 | 0.995 | 0.980 |
The number of observations for each mean value was six (n = 6).