Table 10. Monocyte and neutrophils phagocytic index (% of positive cells) from dogs fed diets with the addition of different yeast cell wall preparations (mean and standard error of the mean).
| Item | Diets1 | p-value | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CON | YCW | YCWs | |||
| Neutrophils | |||||
| Day 15* | 89.1±2.4 | 89.9±2.4 | 92.1±2.4 | 0.807 | |
| Day 30 | 84.9±1.6 | 88.9±1.6 | 87.7±1.6 | 0.189 | |
| Monocytes | |||||
| Day 15* | 47.6±2.0 | 48.2±1.8 | 49.8±1.8 | 0.579 | |
| Day 30 | 54.8b±3.9 | 74.7a±3.8 | 64.4ab±3.8 | 0.010 | |
1 CON = control, without yeast cell wall addition; YCW = 0.3% of a standard yeast cell wall extract; YCWs = 0.3% of a yeast cell wall extract with 20% soluble mannan.
* Values transformed to Log x + 1 for statistical analysis.
a, b = means in a row without a common superscript letter differ (P<0.05).