Table 3.
Effects of experimental treatments on blood serum biochemical at 42 d of age in broiler chickens.
| Experimental treatments |
Total protein (g/dl) |
Albumin (g/dl) |
Glucose (mg/dl) |
Total cholesterol (mg/dl) |
Triglyceride (mg/dl) |
LDL-c1 (mg/dl) |
HDL-c2 (mg/dl) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Control | 3.49a | 1.71a | 226.06 | 113.16b | 36.95b | 17.22b | 88.51 |
| Silymarin | 3.36a | 1.76a | 221.21 | 111.48b | 33.51b | 14.15b | 90.72 |
| CCl4 | 2.51b | 1.40b | 213.28 | 119.96a | 44.12a | 26.97a | 83.54 |
| Silymarin × CCl4 | 3.19a | 1.62a | 208.90 | 122.05a | 35.59b | 19.51b | 95.52 |
| SEM | 0.15 | 0.07 | 3.40 | 2.68 | 2.42 | 2.25 | 2.57 |
a-c means within a column with different superscript differ significantly (P < 0.05).
1LDL-c, low density lipoprotein cholesterol; 2HDL-c, high density lipoprotein cholesterol.