. 2019 Jul 1;33(4):579–587. doi: 10.5713/ajas.19.0220

Table 5.

Effects of dietary treatments on protein concentration (mg/g tissue) and pancreatic enzyme activity (μmol/mg protein/min) of broilers at 10 and 24 d of age

Items	Level (g/kg)	Protein		Trypsin		Chymotrypsin

		10 d	24 d	10 d	24 d	10 d	24^d
Control	0.0	36.9^b	37.5^b	4.1^b	4.4^b	4.1^b	4.9^b
Whole yeast	0.5	37.1^b	39.1^b	4.4^b	4.6^b	4.3^b	4.9^b
	1.0	42.8^ab	41.3^b	5.2^a	4.5^b	4.7^ab	4.9^b
	1.5	54.4^a	51.5^a	5.1^a	5.1^a	4.6^ab	5.5^a
	2.0	55.2^a	54.6^a	5.9^a	5.4^a	5.6^a	5.9^a
Yeast cell wall	0.5	40.0^ab	41.6^b	4.4^b	4.1^b	4.1^b	4.9^b
	1.0	45.2^a	51.4^a	5.4^a	5.1^a	4.8^ab	5.0^b
	1.5	49.1^a	50.5^a	5.5^a	5.1^a	4.9^ab	5.5^a
	2.0	54.1^a	54.3^a	5.6^a	5.4^a	5.7^a	5.9^a
SEM		1.48	1.45	0.15	1.45	0.14	0.09
p-value		0.01	0.004	0.02	0.004	0.04	0.002
Probability levels of orthogonal contrasts
Control vs yeast		0.04	0.03	0.03	0.02	0.04	0.03
Control vs whole yeast		0.03	0.19	0.04	0.03	0.02	0.52
Control vs yeast cell wall		0.02	0.02	0.03	0.02	0.03	0.04
Whole yeast vs yeast cell wall		0.10	0.06	0.44	0.48	0.66	0.62

Values are means of 6 replicates.

SEM, standard error of the mean.

^a,b

Means in a column not sharing a common superscript differ (p<0.05).