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. 2020 Aug 14;11:1735. doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2020.01735

Table 4.

Hematological and biochemical parameters of 5-week-old broiler fed different dietary supplemental oils.

Variables SO SFO FLO FO CO FO + SO DHA EO SEM P
WBC 55.50 62.20 35.20 49.20 40.31 30.34 25.51 20.38 0.515 0.120
Neutrophils 21.01 15.95 25.21 20.94 19.98 15.98 20.45 21.20 0.500 0.230
Lymphocytes 40.97 41.20 42.98 42.97 35.21 39.84 40.02 42.94 0.420 0.450
Monocytes 30.21 22.97 19.04 22.97 34.00 30.74 35.94 32.00 0.394 0.150
Eosinophils 0.50 0.15 0.14 0.08 0.06 0.05 0.18 0.31 0.310 0.161
Basophils 18.33 17.99 10.98 19.20 18.00 20.21 23.10 20.10 0.513 0.941
RBC 2.51 3.10 2.54 2.01 3.00 2.50 4.60 6.01 0.380 0.522
HGB 15.12 16.20 13.98 14.00 13.98 12.99 13.21 16.98 0.470 0.321
HCT 41.01 35.21 32.01 26.21 35.97 35.10 25.94 24.10 0.597 0.850
MCV 150.98 142.55 140.00 123.50 141.00 154.20 140.01 151.20 0.410 0.231
MCH 50.21 55.32 59.21 45.68 49.87 51.97 50.78 59.31 0.395 0.384
MCHC 30.21 34.65 36.00 29.31 30.89 31.54 32.41 33.54 0.740 0.201
RDW 12.52 13.54 15.21 10.55 12.97 9.87 15.54 11.97 0.551 0.303
PLT 29.87 19.54 12.01 9.21 6.01 6.12 8.55 6.30 0.300 0.197

WBC, white blood cell; RBC, red blood cell; HGB, hemoglobin; HCT, hematocrit; MCV, mean corpuscular volume; MCH, mean corpuscular hemoglobin; MCHC, mean corpuscular hemoglobin concentration; RDW, red blood cell distribution width; PLT, platelet count; SO, soya bean oil; SFO, sunflower oil; FLO, flax seed oil; FO, fish oil; CO, canola oil; SO + FO, soybean oil + fish oil; DHA, algal biomass; EO, echium oil; SEM, standard error mean. Differences between the treatment groups are statistically different at P ≤ 0.05, n = 10.