Table 1. The effect of maternal treatment with HMB on body, bone and organs weight, the length of the femur and mass/length ratio in newborn piglets.
Item | Female | Male | SEM | Influence of | ||||
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control | HMB | control | HMB | treatment | sex | Interaction of treatment*sex | ||
Body weight, g | 884a | 1267ab | 922a | 1675b | 72 | <0.001 | 0.036 | 0.070 |
Liver, g | 17.94a | 42.92b | 18.97a | 52.02b | 4.00 0.66 |
<0.001 | 0.253 | 0.247 |
Heart, g | 6.44a | 9.92ab | 6.32a | 11.62b | 0.66 | 0.001 | 0.211 | 0.179 |
Lung, g | 11.02a | 19.74b | 10.14a | 25.89b | 1.62 | <0.001 | 0.089 | 0.033 |
Spleen, g | 0.75 | 1.22 | 0.75 | 1.33 | 0.10 | 0.011 | 0.597 | 0.584 |
Stomach, g | 5.53a | 8.31bc | 5.56ab | 10.11c | 0,53 | <0.001 | 0.124 | 0.134 |
Kidney, g | 7.70ab | 10.51b | 5.97a | 11.63b | 0.63 | <0.001 | 0.722 | 0.115 |
Brain, g | 33.46a | 33.88a | 33.63ab | 36.85b | 0.43 | 0.021 | 0.044 | 0.071 |
Bone weight, g | 4.61a | 7.04ab | 4.93a | 7.75b | 0.34 | <0.001 | 0.069 | 0.452 |
Bone length, mm | 44.99a | 52.73b | 42.91a | 53.91b | 1.05 | <0.001 | 0.303 | 0.901 |
Relative bone weight, % | 0.47a | 0.58a | 0.54a | 0.47a | 0.03 | 0.662 | 0.943 | 0.379 |
Mass/length bone ratio | 0.098a | 0.122ab | 0.115a | 0.146b | 0.005 | 0.001 | 0.031 | 0.381 |
a, b, c—mean values in rows with different letters differ significantly at P<0.05; SEM—standard error of the means.