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. 2018 Apr 25;19(5):1284. doi: 10.3390/ijms19051284

Table 2.

Effects of dietary supplementation with OCM (50 mg/kg diet) on the concentrations of hormones, IGF-1 and PGE2 in piglets.

Item Control Group OCM Group p-Value
Insulin (μU/mL) 5.24 ± 1.07 b 8.16 ± 1.30 a 0.038
Cortisol (ng/mL) 49.3 ± 11.0 42.8 ± 7.96 0.499
IGF-1 (ng/mL) 235 ± 57.4 242 ± 57.9 0.193
PGE2 (pg/mL) 29.3 ± 3.09 29.0 ± 2.76 0.813

Data are means ± SD, n = 8. OCM, oleum cinnamomi; IGF-1, insulin-like growth factor 1; PGE2, prostaglandin E2. a,b Means within rows with different superscripts differ (p < 0.05).