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. 2013 May;26(5):683–690. doi: 10.5713/ajas.2012.12683

Table 3.

Effects of resveratrol and essential oils blend on serum levels of immunoglobulins (mg/mL) and TNF-α (pg/mL) of challenged piglets1

Items Treatments2
SE3 p-value
NC PC T1 T2
IgG (mg/ml) 304c 366b 466a 409b 27.7 <0.01
IgM (mg/ml) 30.2 29.9 30.0 30.3 0.64 0.90
IgA (mg/ml) 6.33 5.80 6.85 6.87 0.83 0.04
TNF-α (pg/ml) 136a 99.0b 115ab 108ab 17.7 0.09
a,b,c

Means in a row with no common superscripts significantly differ (p<0.05) or tend to differ (p<0.10).

1

Values represent the means of three pens with four pigs per pen.

2

NC (Negative control), basal diet; PC (Positive control), basal diet+0.002% Apramycin; T1, basal diet+0.2% Respig (containing resveratrol); T2, basal diet+0.0125% Biomin PEP; (essential oils blend).

3

Pooled standard error.