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. 2020 Apr 25;57(2):114–123. doi: 10.2141/jpsa.0180112

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
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
1

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).

2

Mean value from six replications per treatment.

3

Packed cell volume

4

White blood cell count

5

H/L ratio was calculated by dividing % Heterophils by % Lymphocytes.

6

Malondialdehyde concentrations

a-b

Means in the same row with different superscript letters are significantly different (P<0.05).