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Table 2.

Effects of dietary supplementation with B. licheniformis and S. cerevisiae as alternatives to monensin on serum profiles of fattening lambs.

Items	Treatments					SEM	P-value
Items	NC	PC	BL	SC	BS	SEM	P-value
GH (ng/mL)	1.21^d	1.22^cd	1.32^bc	1.35^b	1.47^a	0.02	<0.0001
IGF-1 (μg/mL)	29.49^c	30.64^c	30.88^c	34.49^b	36.29^a	0.46	<0.0001
INS (μIU/mL)	18.12^b	19.13^ab	21.61^a	19.11^ab	21.73^a	0.45	0.028
T-AOC (U/ml)	9.47	9.47	9.55	9.62	9.78	0.04	0.130
MDA (nmol/mL)	5.19	5.53	5.54	5.52	5.36	0.07	0.409
SOD (U/ml)	100.06^b	96.16^b	95.25^b	96.19^b	121.50^a	2.55	0.002
GSH-PX (μmol/L)	846.26^b	847.53^b	855.65^b	860.01^ab	870.99^a	2.51	0.007
IGA (μg/mL)	0.43^b	0.52^ab	0.59^a	0.58^a	0.60^a	0.02	0.002
IGG (μg/mL)	15.98^c	17.65^bc	19.91^b	19.19^b	24.40^a	0.59	<0.0001
IGM (μg/mL)	0.96^c	1.25^bc	1.30^b	1.26^bc	1.62^a	0.05	0.002

^a,bValues in the same row with different superscripts differ significantly (P < 0.05).