Table 5.

The average concentrations of pro-inflammatory cytokines and acute phase proteins in plasma of peripheral blood of goats

Item	Diet		SED a	Effect, P -value
	LG	HG		Diet	Time	Diet × Time
TNFα (fmol/mL)
0 h	15.54	52.36	6.98	<0.001	0.681	0.774
4 h	11.51	71.67
8 h	19.24	53.92
IL-1B (ng/mL)
0 h	0.05	0.11	0.02	<0.001	0.089	0.127
4 h	0.06	0.14
8 h	0.06	0.09
IL-6 (pg/mL)
0 h	93.99	107.02	23.81	0.097	0.372	0.717
4 h	120.56	150.95
8 h	116.58	161.07
LBP (μg/mL)
0 h	13.58	42.22	4.23	<0.001	0.612	0.734
4 h	14.50	42.34
8 h	16.25	37.91
Hp (μg/mL)
0 h	79.55	365.58	50.42	0.021	0.477	0.636
4 h	183.39	307.53
8 h	112.66	350.52
SAA (μg/mL)
0 h	57.31	348.56	37.49	0.024	0.726	0.627
4 h	78.18	386.66
8 h	63.06	324.88

^aSED: standard error of difference between treatment and control.