Table 8.

Correlation of serum and plasma analytes with serum prolactin of steers grazing low endophyte (LE)- or high endophyte (HE)-infected forages.

Itemd	Overalla		LEb		HEc
	Coefficient	P-value	Coefficient	P-value	Coefficient	P-value
ALP	0.176	0.212	0.155	0.4617	0.272	0.161
ALT	0.317	0.022	0.424	0.035	0.268	0.168
AST	0.161	0.256	0.154	0.462	0.202	0.302
AST/ALT ratio	−0.119	0.398	−0.144	0.492	−0.140	0.477
Ammonia	−0.146	0.301	−0.231	0.267	0.088	0.657
Blood urea nitrogen	0.236	0.092	0.405	0.045	0.204	0.297
Albumin	−0.111	0.434	−0.237	0.254	0.116	0.558
Globulin	0.092	0.517	0.214	0.305	−0.149	0.449
Albumin/globulin ratio	−0.159	0.262	−0.342	0.094	0.215	0.272
γ-Glutamyltransferase	0.100	0.479	0.240	0.247	−0.136	0.490
Total bilirubin	0.122	0.389	0.220	0.290	−0.024	0.904
Total protein	0.028	0.845	0.083	0.695	−0.074	0.709
Creatinine	0.110	0.438	−0.019	0.927	0.433	0.021
Blood urea nitrogen:creatinine	0.121	0.392	0.377	0.064	−0.237	0.226
Creatine kinase	0.023	0.870	0.014	0.948	0.109	0.614
Glucose	−0.057	0.689	−0.145	0.490	0.120	0.542
LDH	0.018	0.898	0.046	0.827	−0.120	0.542
Triglycerides	0.321	0.021	0.314	0.126	0.388	0.042
Cholesterol	0.046	0.748	0.054	0.799	0.019	0.923

^a(LE + HE) analytes vs. (LE + HE) prolactin.

^bLE analytes vs. LE prolactin.

^cHE analytes vs. HE prolactin.

^dALP, alkaline phosphatase; ALT, alanine aminotransferase; AST, aspartate aminotransferase; LDH, lactate dehydrogenase.