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Table 5.

Effect of diets on the level of intestinal permeability markers in plasma

(Mean values with pooled standard errors; fifteen fish per diet)

	FM	SBM 12·5 %	SBM 25 %	SBM 37·5 %	sem	P
Permeability markers
Endotoxin (EU/ml)	0·09	0·08	0·09	0·08	0·019	0·621
DNA concentration (μg/ml)^*	1·30	1·09	1·14	1·06	0·296	0·263
d-Lactate (μg/ml)	6·19^b	7·01^b	6·80^b	8·69^a	1·288	<0·0001
Sugar markers (μg/ml)
Lactulose^†	9·20^a,b	2·00^b	2·89^b	10·26^a	3·949	0·012
Sucralose	0·71	ND	ND	1·19	0·951	0·421
l-Rhamnose	15·65^a,b	17·09^a	14·86^a,b	10·25^b	3·648	0·013
L:R^†	0·54^a,b	0·16^b	0·22^b	1·70^a	1·013	0·010
S:R	0·04	ND	ND	0·08	0·041	0·189

FM, fish meal; SBM; soyabean meal; EU, endotoxin units; ND, not detected; L:R, lactulose:l-rhamnose ratio; S:R, sucralose:l-rhamnose ratio.

^a,b Mean values within a row with unlike superscript letters were significantly different (P < 0·05).

Genomic DNA measured after extraction.

^†

The Kruskal–Wallis test was performed for this parameter.