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Table 2.

Hematological values of gilts fed diet with or without zearalenone (ZEA) supplementation.¹

Item	Control²	ZEA1²	ZEA2²	ZEA3²	SEM	Effects (P-value)
Item	Control²	ZEA1²	ZEA2²	ZEA3²	SEM	Treatment	Linear
Leukocytes, × 10⁹/L	18.68^a	17.51^a	14.27^b	14.13^b	0.09	<0.001	<0.001
Erythrocytes, × 10¹²/L	6.47	5.98	6.21	5.93	0.03	0.094	0.154
Platelets, × 10⁹/L	296.87^a	269.73^b	261.26^b	220.17^c	1.55	<0.001	<0.001
Lymphocytes, %	30.28^a	29.73^a	24.46^b	18.74^c	0.05	<0.001	<0.001
Hemoglobin, g/L	96.77	94.28	92.71	90.33	0.35	0.089	0.009
Hematocrit, L/L	39.31^a	37.37^ab	36.74^b	34.58^c	0.14	0.001	<0.001
MCV, fl	59.48	59.66	59.84	58.92	0.12	0.728	0.519
MCH, pg	16.72	16.13	15.88	15.56	0.08	0.255	0.043
MCHC, g/L	265.86	262.97	265.15	266.07	0.49	0.734	0.846

MCV = mean corpuscular volume; MCH = mean corpuscular hemoglobin; MCHC = mean corpuscular hemoglobin concentration; SEM = standard error of the means.

^{a, b, c} Means within a row with different letters differ significantly (P < 0.05).

Data are means for 5 replicates per treatment. Data per piglet were run in triplicate in a single assay to avoid inter-assay variation.

Zearalenone was not detectable in the control diet; ZEA1, ZEA2 and ZEA3 represent the control diet with an addition of 1.1, 2.0 and 3.2 mg/kg ZEA, respectively, in the experiment treatments.