Table 5. Concentration of IgG and IgA in colostrum and milk and piglet serum winter and summer.
Winter | SEM | Summer | SEM | p-value | |
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Colostrum IgG (mg/mL)1) | 36.30 | 3.22 | 35.41 | 3.22 | 0.85 |
Colostrum Ig A (mg/mL)1) | 3.19 | 0.77 | 2.21 | 0.83 | 0.39 |
Milk IgA (mg/mL)2) | 1.41 | 0.19 | 0.86 | 0.20 | 0.07 |
Piglets serum IgG (mg/mL) | |||||
Day 0 | 11.75 | 1.18 | 9.18 | 0.83 | 0.19 |
Day 21 | 2.25 | 0.75 | 2.40 | 0.61 | 0.93 |
Piglets serum IgA (mg/mL) | |||||
Day 0 | 0.05 | 0.00 | 0.01 | 0.00 | <0.001 |
Day 21 | 0.11 | 0.01 | 0.004 | 0.01 | <0.001 |
Colostrum collected after birth (0 hours).
Milk collected 21 days post-partum.
SEM, standard error of the mean.