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Table 4.

Blood and tissue biochemistry of juvenile gilthead sea breams fed to visual satiety from February to May 2019 (13 weeks) with a control diet and four supplemented diets with 0.5% or 1% of the LB_Gb or LB_Gh microalgae-derived products.

	CTRL	LB_Gb0.5	LB_Gb1	LB_Gh0.5	LB_Gh1	p^a
Plasma glucose (mM)	3.32 ± 0.08	3.36 ± 0.10	3.59 ± 0.12	3.42 ± 0.11	3.34 ± 0.10	0.385
Plasma lactate (mM)	4.18 ± 0.49^a	2.26 ± 0.21^b	2.39 ± 0.31^b	2.79 ± 0.34^ab	1.91 ± 0.18^b	0.012
Plasma triglycerides (mM)	1.25 ± 0.08^a	1.49 ± 0.17^ab	1.83 ± 0.14^b	1.52 ± 0.18^ab	1.90 ± 0.15^b	0.032
Plasma proteins (mg mL⁻¹)	31.54 ± 0.74	31.84 ± 0.88	30.68 ± 1.64	31.14 ± 1.07	29.44 ± 1.58	0.869
Plasma cortisol (ng mL⁻¹)	24.93 ± 3.01^a	14.51 ± 1.71^b	14.39 ± 1.89^b	16.78 ± 2.70^ab	17.75 ± 1.87^ab	0.033
Hepatic glucose (µmol gww⁻¹)	0.67 ± 0.09	0.82 ± 0.11	0.62 ± 0.14	1.03 ± 0.17	0.67 ± 1.11	0.178
Hepatic glycogen (µmol gww⁻¹)	3.86 ± 0.34^a	4.48 ± 0.23^ab	5.45 ± 0.39^b	4.10 ± 0.27^a	5.23 ± 0.25^b	0.001
Hepatic triglycerides (µmol gww⁻¹)	97.8 ± 11.0	99.7 ± 13.5	104.0 ± 10.3	103.6 ± 8.8	92.6 ± 7.5	0.946
Muscular glucose (µmol gww⁻¹)	0.19 ± 0.03	0.19 ± 0.04	0.17 ± 0.03	0.17 ± 0.03	0.19 ± 0.05	0.977
Muscular glycogen (µmol gww⁻¹)	0.04 ± 0.02	0.07 ± 0.03	0.09 ± 0.03	0.09 ± 0.04	0.04 ± 0.01	0.136
Muscular lactate (µmol gww⁻¹)	41.64 ± 2.57	49.12 ± 2.22	45.22 ± 2.63	47.98 ± 3.32	45.01 ± 2.57	0.330
Muscular triglycerides (µmol gww⁻¹)	17.73 ± 2.27^a	19.84 ± 2.83^a	18.49 ± 3.07^a	24.01 ± 4.02^ab	34.13 ± 5.56^b	0.022

Data are the mean ± SEM of 12 fish. Different superscript letters in each row indicate significant differences among dietary treatments based on one-way ANOVA and Tukey’s test (p < 0.05). CTRL: control; LB_Gb0.5: LB-GREENboost (0.5%); LB_Gb1: LB-GREENboost (1%); LB_Gh0.5: LB-GUThealth (0.5%); LB_Gh1: LB-GUThealth (1%).

^aValues resulting from one-way analysis of variance.