Table 5.
Treatment least squares means and SEM for percentage of polymorphonuclear neutrophils (PMN) in uterine endometrium cytology samples.
| Day | n | Treatmenta |
|||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CON | MET | CHO | MIX | SEM | P-valuec,d | ||||||
| 15 | 62 | 41.96 | 37.77 | 45.76 | 48.01 | 7.18 | 0.97 | ||||
| 30 | 70 | 10.15 | 10.30 | 12.61 | 18.31 | 3.93 | 0.22d | ||||
| CON-CON | CON-MET | MET-CON | MET-MET | CHO-CON | CHO-MET | MIX-CON | MIX-MET | ||||
| 72 | 69 | 15.76 | 9.58 | 16.30 | 5.86 | 6.37 | 4.06 | 2.50 | 2.77 | 4.74 | 0.46d |
a
Treatments: CON: control, n = 16; MET: methionine, n = 20; CHO: choline, n = 17; MIX: methionine and choline, n = 19; CON-CON: control then control, n = 6; CON-MET: control then methionine, n = 10; MET-CON: methionine then control, n = 10; MET-MET: methionine then methionine, n = 10; CHO-CON: choline then control, n = 11; CHO-MET: choline then methionine, n = 6; MIX-CON: methionine and choline then control, n = 9; MIX-MET: methionine and choline then methionine, n = 10.
c
P-values have been log transformed.
d
Calving season was used as a covariate when significant (P < 0.03).