Table 5.
Effect of curcumin (CUR) and piperine (PIP) on plasma d-lactate and diamine oxidase activity (DAO) in weaned Wuzhishan piglets.
| Items | Treatmentsa | SEMb | P | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CON | PIP | Low-CUR | PIP + CUR | High-CUR | |||
| Plasma DAO (U/L) | 7.17c | 6.41d | 6.55cd | 5.58e | 5.29e | 0.199 | 0.001 |
| Plasma d-lactate (mg/L) | 5.91c | 5.22c | 5.34c | 4.23d | 3.67d | 0.240 | 0.001 |
a
CON: a corn–soybean basal diet; PIP, low-CUR, PIP + CUR, and high-CUR, the basal diet supplemented with 50 mg/kg piperine, 200 mg/kg curcumin, 200 mg/kg curcumin + 50 mg/kg piperine, and 300 mg/kg curcumin, respectively.
b
SEM, standard error of the mean (n = 6).
cde
means in the same row with different letters differ significantly (P < 0.05).