. 2016 Jul 27;11(7):e0159433. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0159433

Table 3. Serum clinical chemistry variables of 5 week-old chickens fed with regular diet or the diet supplemented with 0.5% HESM, and challenged with LPS, Study 2, (n = 12).

	Saline		LPS
Parameters	Control	HESM	Control	HESM
Albumin (g/dL)	1.15± 0.02^a,b	1.08± 0.02^b	1.17± 0.02^a	1.19± 0.03^a
Glucose(mg/dL)	213.15±4.18^a	216.15± 3.64^a	199.08± 4.14^b	212.85± 5.63^a
Inorganic phosphate (mg/dL)	3.31±0.16^b	3.28± 0.13^b	3.28± 0.17^b	4.01± 0.21^a
Total protein(g/dL)	3.12± 0.06^a	2.76± 0.04^b	3.15 ± 0.05^a	3.22± 0.01^a
Alkaline phosphate (U/L)	193.77± 24.24^a,b	226.31± 28.60^a	139.77 ± 14.90^b	192.85±24.93^a,b
Alanine aminotransferase (U/L)	3.85 ± 0.62^a	2.49± 0.49^a	2.75± 0.44^a	3.85± 0.56^a
Aspartate Aminotransferase (U/L)	309.45±17.4^a	348.67±29.45^a	324.95±18.49^a	380.83±24.72^a
Blood urea nitrogen (mg/μL)	1.61± 0.13^a	1.05± 0.15^a	1.33± 0.08^a	1.30± 0.08^a
Magnesium (mEq/L)	1.90± 0.05^a	1.58± 0.04^b	1.73± 0.05^{a, b}	1.68± 0.11^b
Calcium (mg/dL)	10.53± 0.23^a	7.99± 0.26^c	10.28± 0.29^a	9.40± 0.27^b
Cholesterol (mg/dL)	165.15± 6.91^a	166.00± 4.16^a	138.54±4.05^b	161.31 ± 6.20^a
Creatinine kinase(U/L)	546.8±83.43^a,b	821.9 ± 166.59^a	288.9± 36.06^b	388.7± 46.39^b
Triglycerides (mg/dL)	55.00± 4.86^b	51.07± 3.28^b	93.00± 5.49^a	86.31± 6.93^a
High density lipoprotein (mg/dL)	45.15± 2.81^a	44.77± 1.28^a	35.69± 1.24^b	41.23± 1.61^a
Iron (μg/dL)	99.54± 4.94^a	93.85± 4.80^a	55.46± 5.18^b	57.77± 9.27^b

Values with different superscripts in a row are significantly different (P ≤ 0.05).