Table 3.
Hematological measurement of pigs fed diets contaminated with aflatoxin (0 or 20 µg/kg) and supplemented with modified yeast cell wall extract (0 or 2 g/kg).1
| Item | No AF |
AF |
SEM |
P-value |
||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No YC | YC | No YC | YC | AF | YC | Interaction | ||
| Eosinophils, cell/µL | 402 | 476 | 416 | 491 | 96 | 0.843 | 0.321 | 0.996 |
| Hematocrit, % | 39.9 | 38.1 | 37.7 | 40.5 | 1.2 | 0.880 | 0.642 | 0.045 |
| Hemoglobin, g/dL | 12.2 | 11.6 | 11.6 | 12.4 | 0.3 | 0.837 | 0.685 | 0.045 |
| Lymphocytes, cell/mL | 7,194 | 6,032 | 7,647 | 6,709 | 1,446 | 0.636 | 0.393 | 0.924 |
| MCH, pg | 18.8 | 19.1 | 19.1 | 19.9 | 0.5 | 0.205 | 0.208 | 0.587 |
| MCHC, g/dL | 30.5 | 30.5 | 30.7 | 30.5 | 0.3 | 0.714 | 0.639 | 0.733 |
| MCV, fL | 61.6 | 62.7 | 62.7 | 65.2 | 1.7 | 0.252 | 0.246 | 0.652 |
| Monocytes, cell/mL | 782 | 705 | 832 | 852 | 161 | 0.488 | 0.840 | 0.727 |
| Neutrophils, cell/mL | 5,289 | 4,860 | 4,895 | 6,550 | 767 | 0.366 | 0.391 | 0.155 |
| Platelet count, 103/µL | 268 | 227 | 172 | 215 | 32 | 0.011 | 0.957 | 0.035 |
| RBC, 106/µL | 6.49 | 6.08 | 6.07 | 6.28 | 0.19 | 0.395 | 0.448 | 0.127 |
| WBC, 103/µL | 13.8 | 12.0 | 14.1 | 14.7 | 2.1 | 0.434 | 0.756 | 0.518 |
AF = aflatoxin; YC = yeast cell wall based feed additive; WBC = white blood cells; RBC = red blood cells; MCV = mean corpuscular volume; MCH = mean corpuscular hemoglobin; MCHC = mean corpuscular hemoglobin concentration.
1
Factor AF with the presence of 20 µg AF/kg. Factor YC with the supplementation of 2 g Integral A+/kg.