Table 1.

Effect of chronic enteral deoxynivalenol (DON) exposure and pre- or post-hepatic E. coli lipopolysaccharide (LPS) infusion on arterial, venous or portal red hemogram in pigs.

Parameter	Overall Mean	PSEM	p-Values
			Group	Catheter	Time	G × C × T
RBC (×10 6 cells/µL)	5.57	0.24	0.306	0.299	<0.001	0.467
Hct (%)	30.44	1.40	0.629	0.006	<0.001	0.415
Hgb (g/dL)	10.82	0.49	0.618	0.073 T	<0.001	0.279
MCV (fL)	54.78	1.26	0.632	<0.001	0.981	0.036
MCH (g/dL)	19.48	0.52	0.602	0.144	<0.001	0.080 T
MCHC (g/dL)	35.56	0.52	0.554	0.001	<0.001	0.429

Notes: RBC = red blood cells (reference: 5.5–8.5 × 10 ⁶ cells/µL ¹); Hct = hematocrit (reference: 33%–45% ¹); Hgb = hemoglobin (reference: 10.16–14.03 g/dL ¹); MCV = mean corpuscular volume (reference: 50–65 fL ¹); MCH = mean corpuscular hemoglobin (reference: 17–21 g/dL ¹); MCHC = mean corpuscular hemoglobin concentration (reference: 30–35 g/dL ¹); ¹ = [26]; references in venous blood; ^T = trend (p ≤ 0.10); PSEM = pooled standard error of means. Barrows were either fed a DON contaminated ration (DON; 4.59 mg/kg feed) or control feed (CON) during 29 days. Infusion groups were divided as follows: pre-hepatic LPS infusion (CON_CON_jugular-LPS_portal, n = 7 and DON_CON_jugular-LPS_portal, n = 6), post-hepatic LPS infusion (CON_LPS_jugular-CON_portal, n = 8 and DON_LPS_jugular-CON_portal, n = 6), and control infusion (CON_CON_jugular-CON_portal, n = 7 and DON_CON_jugular-CON_portal, n = 7). Infusion from time 0 until 60 min with 7.5 µg LPS/kg BW in 0.9% saline. Feed was offered during 15 min prior to infusion start. Blood samples were collected at times: −30, 15, 30, 45, 60, 75, 90, 120, 150, 180 min.