TABLE 4.
Effects of Clostridium butyricum treatment on hepatic lipid contents1 of laying hens.
| Total lipid content (%) | TC (μmol/g tissue) | TG (μmol/g tissue) | FFAs (μmol/g tissue) | |
| Control | 13.57 ± 2.54 | 37.61 ± 5.58 | 90.75 ± 16.09 | 6.66 ± 1.17a |
| Treatment | 16.08 ± 5.70 | 38.31 ± 6.76 | 74.34 ± 10.37 | 5.16 ± 1.35b |
| P-value | 0.348 | 0.849 | 0.062 | 0.032 |
a,bValues with different superscripts within the same column differ significantly (P < 0.05). 1Total lipid content was expressed as the percentage of the weight of dried liver lipid to the wet weight of liver sample. TC, total cholesterol; TG, triglycerides; FFAs, free fatty acids.