. 2017 Jun 15;12(6):e0179693. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0179693

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
Item	control	HMB	control	HMB	SEM	treatment	sex	Interaction of treatment*sex
Body weight, g	884^a	1267^ab	922^a	1675^b	72	<0.001	0.036	0.070
Liver, g	17.94^a	42.92^b	18.97^a	52.02^b	4.00 0.66	<0.001	0.253	0.247
Heart, g	6.44^a	9.92^ab	6.32^a	11.62^b	0.66	0.001	0.211	0.179
Lung, g	11.02^a	19.74^b	10.14^a	25.89^b	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	5.53^a	8.31^bc	5.56^ab	10.11^c	0,53	<0.001	0.124	0.134
Kidney, g	7.70^ab	10.51^b	5.97^a	11.63^b	0.63	<0.001	0.722	0.115
Brain, g	33.46^a	33.88^a	33.63^ab	36.85^b	0.43	0.021	0.044	0.071
Bone weight, g	4.61^a	7.04^ab	4.93^a	7.75^b	0.34	<0.001	0.069	0.452
Bone length, mm	44.99^a	52.73^b	42.91^a	53.91^b	1.05	<0.001	0.303	0.901
Relative bone weight, %	0.47^a	0.58^a	0.54^a	0.47^a	0.03	0.662	0.943	0.379
Mass/length bone ratio	0.098^a	0.122^ab	0.115^a	0.146^b	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.