Table 4.

Effects of taurine supplementation on liver oxidative status of LPS-challenged broilers¹

	Treatment2
Item	CON	LPS	LPS + T1	LPS + T2	P-value
T-AOC, units/mg protein	0.90 ± 0.02	0.81 ± 0.03	0.90 ± 0.05	0.82 ± 0.05	0.197
SOD, units/mg protein	372.87 ± 9.73a	339.68 ± 9.11b	350.01 ± 8.62ab	366.23 ± 12.18ab	0.101
GSH-Px, units/mg protein	58.25 ± 1.82a	51.30 ± 1.46b	56.15 ± 1.21a	57.82 ± 1.92a	0.021
GSH, nmol/mg protein	2.86 ± 0.12a	2.11 ± 0.24b	2.67 ± 0.10a	2.40 ± 0.12ab	0.03
CAT, units/mg protein	8.07 ± 0.17	7.54 ± 0.17	7.90 ± 0.11	7.85 ± 0.38	0.441
MDA, nmol/mg protein	1.02 ± 0.07b	1.33 ± 0.07a	1.02 ± 0.06b	1.08 ± 0.09b	0.021

¹Data are means ± SEM, n = 8.

²CON, control basal diet; LPS, LPS challenged broilers fed CON; LPS+T1, LPS challenged broilers fed CON supplemented with 5 g/kg taurine; LPS+T2, LPS challenged broilers fed CON supplemented with 7.5 g/lg taurine.

^a,bMeans within the same row with no common superscript differ significantly (P < 0.05).