Table 4. Effect of treatments on blood constituents, blood chemistry, and thiobarbituric acid-reactive substances in the plasma (expressed as MDA levels)on day 43.
Observations | Treatments1, 2 | SEM | P-value | ||||
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T1 | T2 | T3 | T4 | T5 | |||
Blood constituents | |||||||
PCV3 (%) | 31.5 | 30.9 | 31.1 | 28.1 | 31.3 | 0.514 | 0.181 |
WBC4 (cell/µL) | 17,500 | 21,110 | 23,221 | 30,200 | 25,175 | 1,548 | 0.094 |
Heterophil (%) | 41.3ab | 50.8a | 50.6a | 24.5b | 33.4ab | 2.719 | 0.003 |
Lymphocyte (%) | 43.4b | 45.1b | 43.6b | 56.7a | 57.8a | 1.968 | 0.012 |
H/L ratio5 | 0.95ab | 1.13a | 1.17a | 0.44b | 0.59b | 0.076 | 0.001 |
Blood chemistry | |||||||
Glucose (mg/dL) | 212a | 201a | 198ab | 183ab | 162b | 4.892 | 0.005 |
Triglyceride (mg/dL) | 38.6 | 32.6 | 26.7 | 24.1 | 26.8 | 4.892 | 0.056 |
Cholesterol (mg/dL) | 124a | 130a | 129a | 107ab | 99.9b | 3.217 | 0.002 |
MDA6 (nmol/mL) | 3.03 | 3.00 | 2.97 | 2.94 | 2.94 | 0.014 | 0.233 |
Treatments: T1 control, T2 avilamycin, T3 crude ethanol extract (CEE) of Jakr-Na-Rai (JNR) granules (0.13% flavonoid), T4 JNR powder (0.13% flavonoid), and T5 JNR powder (0.26% flavonoid).
Mean value from six replications per treatment.
Packed cell volume
White blood cell count
H/L ratio was calculated by dividing % Heterophils by % Lymphocytes.
Malondialdehyde concentrations
Means in the same row with different superscript letters are significantly different (P<0.05).