Table 9.

Hepatic iron and ferritin protein concentrations ¹.

Pea Diet	Liver Iron (µg/g)	Liver Ferritin (AU)
1-2347-144	96.49 ± 6.52 a	1.078 ± 0.014 a
4803-4-78G-L	73.30 ± 7.58 b	1.084 ± 0.015 a
4802-8-46Y-L	77.61 ± 17.72 b	1.063 ± 0.009 a
4802-8-60G-L	87.46 ± 4.98 ab	1.050 ± 0.005 a
4802-8-87Y-L	71.88 ± 4.79 b	0.469 ± 0.160 b
CDC Bronco	91.34 ± 9.79 ab	0.257 ± 0.017 c
No pea	75.71 ± 6.29 b	0.280 ± 0.007 c

¹ Values are means ± SEM (n = 12 animals per treatment group). ^a–c Treatment groups not indicated by the same letter are significantly different (p ≤ 0.05). Total iron concentrations were measured as micrograms per gram of liver tissue (wet weight). Liver ferritin concentrations were measured as arbitrary units of liver tissue (wet weight).