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Table 6.

Tissue total vitamin E contents of juvenile olive flounder fed the experimental diets for 6 weeks (μg/g of wet matter basis).

Item¹	Muscle	Kidney	Liver
Individual treatment means
Hg₀E₀	9.8 ± 0.6	33.3 ± 1.3^b	17.8 ± 2.9^e
Hg₀E₁₀₀	17.0 ± 0.7	61.12 ± 3.2^a	44.1 ± 3.7^c
Hg₀E₂₀₀	40.1 ± 1.6	61.4 ± 1.5^a	63.8 ± 0.8^a
Hg₂₀E₀	4.7 ± 0.6	26.6 ± 2.2^c	14.3 ± 0.3^e
Hg₂₀E₁₀₀	10.6 ± 0.6	28.4 ± 2.3^c	31.8 ± 0.8^d
Hg₂₀E₂₀₀	36.6 ± 1.6	34.9 ± 0.8^b	50.5 ± 0.7^b
Means of main effect
Hg₀	22.3^a	51.9^a	41.9^a
Hg₂₀	17.3^b	30.0^b	32.2^b
E₀	7.3^c	30.0^c	16.1^c
E₁₀₀	13.8^b	44.7^b	37.9^b
E₂₀₀	38.3^a	48.2^a	57.1^a
Two-way ANOVA: P-value
Hg effect	0.0001	0.0001	0.0001
Vitamin E effect	0.0001	0.0001	0.0001
Hg × Vitamin E	0.1057	0.0001	0.0023

^a,b,c,d,e Values are means ± SD from triplicate groups of fish (n = 3) where the values within a column without a common superscript differ (P < 0.05).

Hg₀E₀, Hg₀E₁₀₀ and Hg₀E₂₀₀ designate 0 mg/kg Hg with 0, 100 and 200 mg/kg vitamin E, respectively; Hg₂₀E₀, Hg₂₀E₁₀₀ and Hg₂₀E₂₀₀ designate 20 mg/kg Hg with 0, 100 and 200 mg/kg vitamin E, respectively.