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

Table 5. Study 3.

The expression of splenic genes quantified by RT-PCR in birds fed with or without HESM and treated with LPS or saline for 4 h (n = 6).

	Saline		LPS
Genes	Control	HESM	Control	HESM
IL-1	1.00± 0.24^b,a	0.75±0.11^b	1.32±0.25^b,a	1.83±0.61^a
IL-6	1.00±0.24^b	1.08±0.17^b	3.52±0.37^a	2.42±0.49^b
IL-10	1.00± 0.10^b,c	0.89±0.19^c	2.3±0.34^b	4.26±0.95^a
IFN-γ	1.00±0.28^a	0.99±0.26^a	0.68±0.13^a	1.15±0.31^a
TGF-β	1.00±0.20^a	0.97±0.14^a	0.28±0.04^b	0.30±0.04^b
IL-12	1.00±0.13^a	1.43±0.32^a	1.13±0.26^a	1.64±0.19^a
VEGF	1.00±0.13^a	0.32±0.08^b	0.86±0.11^a	0.31±0.04^b
IL-4	1.00±0.13^b,c	0.67±0.12^c	1.76±0.32^b	2.82±0.68^a

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