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. 2019 Oct 31;11(11):633. doi: 10.3390/toxins11110633

Table 2.

Cell counts in blood of pigs fed diets with mycotoxins (MT) and YCWE1 (YC) on day 28 in experiment 1.

Mycotoxins (MT) - + p Value
YCWE (YC) 0% 0.2% 0% 0.2% SEM MT YC MT × YC
RBC2, 106/µL 6.84 6.90 7.05 6.80 0.23 0.687 0.601 0.387
Hemogblobin, g/dL 12.43 12.48 12.64 11.95 0.45 0.709 0.317 0.254
Hematocrit, % 40.91 40.63 41.05 38.79 1.38 0.495 0.189 0.317
MCV3, fL 59.70 58.70 58.39 57.22 1.19 0.124 0.286 0.988
MCH4, pg 18.22 18.12 17.96 17.62 0.36 0.217 0.527 0.755
MCHC5, g/dL 30.47 30.81 30.79 30.79 0.21 0.492 0.420 0.412
Platelet count, mL 185.9 144.0 133.7 152.4 27.1 0.394 0.618 0.237
WBC6, 103/µL 20.52 21.43 19.91 18.83 1.36 0.236 0.950 0.470
Neutrophils, cell/mL 7.89 6.66 5.89 5.77 0.72 0.003 0.139 0.225
Lymphocytes, cell/mL 10.97A 13.05B 12.47AB 11.30AB 0.97 0.868 0.614 0.099
Monocytes, cell/mL 1.04 1.13 0.96 1.13 0.15 0.777 0.397 0.781
Eosinophils, cell/µL 543 499 518 484 84 0.812 0.636 0.949
Basophils, cell/µL 109 128 130 66 45 0.585 0.545 0.271

1 YCWE: yeast cell wall extract; 2 RBC: red blood cells; 3 MCV: mean corpuscular volume; 4 MCH: mean corpuscular hemoglobin; 5 MCHC: mean corpuscular hemoglobin concentration; 6 WBC: white blood cells. MT-: diet without aflatoxin B1 and fumonisin B1; MT+: inclusion of 180 μg/kg aflatoxin B1 and 14 mg/kg fumonisin B1 by replacing the clean corn with naturally mycotoxin-contaminated corn; YC 0%: no addition of YCWE (Mycosorb A+, Alltech, Nicholasville, KY, USA); YC 0.2%: YCWE added at 2 g/kg of feed. AB Means within a row lacking a common superscript tend to differ (0.05 ≤ p < 0.1).