. 2019 Sep 3;97(11):4557–4566. doi: 10.1093/jas/skz292

Table 3.

Effects of dietary garcinol on hematological parameters of sows during late gestation and lactation

Item	CON¹	LOW¹	HIGH¹	SEM	P-value
Number of sows, n	20	20	20	–	–
Day 90 of gestation
White blood cells, 10³cells/μL	11.7	11.6	11.2	0.2	0.378
Neutrophils, 10³ cells/μL	6.14	5.77	5.01	0.44	0.525
Lymphocytes, 10³ cells/μL	4.50	4.63	4.88	0.14	0.301
Monocytes, 10³ cells/μL	0.33	0.28	0.27	0.12	0.555
Eosonophils, 10³ cells/μL	1.07	0.82	0.79	0.04	0.486
Basophils, 10³ cells/μL	0.03	0.01	0.0078	0.01	0.113
Red blood cells, 10⁶ cells/μL	6.72	6.40	6.23	0.18	0.078
Hemoglobin, g/dL	15.9	14.7	13.8	0.62	0.504
Mean cell hemoglobin, pg	24.9	25.7	26.6	0.51	0.712
Day 110 of gestation
White blood cells, 10³cells/μL	11.3^a	10.2^b	9.4^b	0.8	0.031
Neutrophils, 10³ cells/μL	6.87	5.99	5.73	0.61	0.111
Lymphocytes, 10³ cells/μL	4.21	3.98	3.74	0.18	0.247
Monocytes, 10³ cells/μL	0.26	0.24	0.22	0.17	0.445
Eosonophils, 10³ cells/μL	0.59	0.55	0.52	0.24	0.114
Basophils, 10³ cells/μL	0.004	0.002	0.001	0.33	0.411
Red blood cells, 10⁶ cells/μL	6.07	6.01	5.77	0.48	0.797
Hemoglobin, g/dL	15.4	14.3	13.6	0.51	0.177
Mean cell hemoglobin, pg	27.5	29.8	31.2	0.54	0.705
Day 21 of lactation
White blood cells, 10³cells/μL	10.9	10.4	10.2	0.54	0.624
Neutrophils, 10³ cells/μL	6.15^a	5.32^b	4.73^b	0.30	0.042
Lymphocytes, 10³ cells/μL	3.82	4.15	4.33	0.47	0.062
Monocytes, 10³ cells/μL	0.23	0.24	0.28	0.04	0.428
Eosonophils, 10³ cells/μL	0.72	0.78	0.83	0.11	0.078
Basophils, 10³ cells/μL	0.01	0.015	0.012	0.97	0.862
Red blood cells, 10⁶ cells/μL	5.89	5.76	5.54	1.24	0.257
Hemoglobin, g/dL	16.9	17.8	18.9	1.42	0.748
Mean cell hemoglobin, pg	28.4^a	31.2^b	33.6^b	0.77	0.042

¹Dietary treatment: CON = control diet; LOW = control diet with 200mg/kg garcinol; HIGH = control diet with 600mg/kg garcinol. SEM = standard error of means.^a,bMeans with different superscripts in the same row differ (P < 0.05).