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Table 2.

Effects of inorganic selenium and different sources of bacterial organic selenium on plasma immunoglobulin levels in broiler chickens

Dietary Treatments¹
Parameters	T1		T2	T3	T4	T5	SEM	P-value
DAY 21
IgG (mg/mL)		133.1^b	364.6^a	298.5^ab	298.7^ab	372.0^a	33.38	0.032
IgA (ug/mL)		763.8^b	743.0^b	1335.7^a	754.8^b	1085.2^ab	70.78	0.022
IgM (ug/mL)		481.6^c	552.2^ab	502.7^b	608.4^a	508.5^b	37.13	0.041
DAY 42
IgG (mg/mL)		258.4^b	469.0^a	454.4^a	450.1^a	476.4^a	25.66	0.045
IgA (ug/mL)		1156.9^b	1294.5^a	1202.4^a	1193.4^a	1117.6^a	75.01	0.014
IgM (ug/mL)		690.5^b	840.9^a	760.1^a	719.3^a	709.0^a	27.63	0.007

¹T1; basal diet, T2; basal diet + 0.3 mg/ kg feed sodium selenite, T3; basal diet + 0.3 mg/ kg feed ADS1 Se, T4; basal diet + 0.3 mg/ kg feed ADS2 Se, T5; basal diet + 0.3 mg/ kg feed ADS 18 Se

^a,b,c Means in the same column with different superscripts are significantly different