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Table 4.

Effects of varying levels of dietary lycopene and sampling time on plasma T-AOC and antioxidant enzymes activities in sheep

	T-AOC	CAT	GSH-Px	SOD
LP¹
LP0	17.87±0.68	9.51±0.49^b	131.12±7.97^b	68.13±5.58^a
LP50	19.40±0.86	10.70±0.64^ab	154.19±7.31^ab	81.89±4.41^b
LP100	20.53±1.14	12.25±0.51^a	158.25±9.84^ab	85.16±5.34^b
LP200	20.71±1.15	12.04±0.69^a	180.02±12.72^a	84.91±5.40^b
Time³
Day 30	22.42±0.80^a	11.47±0.68	180.85±13.31^a	91.74±2.29^a
Day 60	20.42±1.07^ab	11.21±0.54	154.02±8.15^ab	88.77±4.20^a
Day 90	18.17±1.05^b	10.64±0.41	133.37±9.71^b	81.29±4.44^a
Day 120	17.50±0.63^b	11.06±0.76	155.34±6.44^ab	58.29±6.31^b
Statistical significance
LP	NS	^**	^**	^*
Time	^**	NS	^*	^***
LP×time	NS	NS	NS	NS
Linear
LP	^*	^**	^*	^*
Time	^***	NS	NS	^***

T-AOC, total antioxidant capacity; CAT, catalase; GSH-Px, glutathione peroxidase; SOD, superoxide dismutase; LP, lycopene; NS, not significant.

LP0, no LP; LP50, 50 mg LP/kg feed; LP100, 100 mg LP/kg feed; LP200, 200 mg LP/kg feed.

Time means sampling time at day 30, 60, 90, and 120 of feeding.

^a,b

Means with different small letters within LP or Time in the same column are significantly different (p<0.05).

p<0.05;

^**

p<0.01;

^***

p<0.001.