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. 2020 Feb 4;6:510. doi: 10.3389/fvets.2019.00510

Table 7.

Effect of different concentrations of enzyme cocktail on immune organs and antibody titer of broiler chicks fed with standard and low-density diet.

Treatment Spleen Thymus Bursa of fabricius HI (log2)
Weight (g) Percentage (%) Weight (g) Percentage (%) Weight (g) Percentage (%) NDV AI
EFFECT OF DIET
Standard 2.19 0.12 7.72 0.46 2.92 0.19 3.22 0.58b
Low density 2.13 0.13 8.08 0.52 3.14 0.21 3.55 1.62a
SEM 0.092 0.004 0.201 0.017 0.122 0.008 2.77 0.197
EFFECT OF MULTIENZYME SUPPLEMENTATION (%)
0 1.69b 0.110b 6.37b 0.425b 2.32b 0.167b 1.12b 0.125b
0.1 2.52a 0.147a 8.42a 0.503a 3.26a 0.208a 4.12a 1.81a
0.2 2.27a 0.139a 8.91a 0.556a 3.51a 0.230a 4.91a 1.37a
SEM 0.113 0.005 0.247 0.020 0.349 0.01 0.339 0.241
INTERACTION BETWEEN DIET AND MULTIENZYME SUPPLEMENTATION (%)
Standard 0 1.97c 0.112 8.19 0.366 2.51c 0.162 1.16 0.25c
0.1 2.34b 0.135 8.20 0.481 2.91b, c 0.187 3.41 1.12b
0.2 2.26b, c 0.136 8.76 0.539 3.35a, b 0.224 5.08 0.37c
Low density 0 1.40d 0.108 6.55 0.484 2.14c 0.171 1.08 0.00c
0.1 2.71a 0.159 8.64 0.524 3.61a 0.228 4.83 2.50a
0.2 2.29b, c 0.142 9.07 0.573 3.61a 0.237 4.75 2.37a
SEM 0.160 0.008 0.349 0.029 0.212 0.015 0.480 0.371
P-VALUE
Diet 0.654 0.252 0.207 0.010 0.224 0.094 0.400 0.004
Enzyme 0.001 0.002 0.001 0.002 0.001 0.005 0.001 0.001
Interaction 0.017 0.258 0.982 0.300 0.047 0.513 0.152 0.030
a,b,c,d

Means within a column with different superscripts are significantly different based on SNK test.

Number of observations were six per interaction cell. SEM, standard error of the mean.