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Table 4.

Effect of necrotic enteritis, phytase, and calcium on phytate esters and inositol concentration (μmol/g DM) in the gizzard digesta of broilers 29 D posthatch.

Effects				Inositol	IP3	IP4	IP5	IP6
	NE	Phy	Ca
Main effects
NE	-			2.404^b	0.610	1.221	0.219	0.365
	+			3.840^a	0.648	1.424	0.176	0.350
Phy		500		3.044	0.388^b	2.038^a	0.262^a	0.441
		1,500		3.201	0.870^a	0.607^b	0.133^b	0.275
Ca			Low	3.547^a	0.603	1.389	0.177	0.441
			High	2.697^b	0.655	1.256	0.218	0.274
SEM				1.32	0.16	0.06	0.11	0.15
P > f
NE				0.001	0.614	0.477	0.510	0.872
Phy				0.696	0.001	0.001	0.049	0.090
Ca				0.040	0.492	0.641	0.523	0.088
NE × Phy				0.784	0.161	0.192	0.261	0.808
NE × Ca				0.464	0.775	0.422	0.595	0.644
Phy × Ca				0.843	0.626	0.766	0.568	0.654
NE × Phy × Ca				0.622	0.203	0.411	0.231	0.496

^a,b,cMeans in the same column with different superscripts are significantly different (P < 0.05).

Phytase (Quantum Blue 5G).

2 or 3-way interaction by Tukey.

Abbreviations: Ca, calcium; IP3, inositol triphosphate; IP4, inositol tetraphosphate; IP5, inositol pentaphosphate; IP6, inositol hexaphosphate; NE, necrotic enteritis; phy, phytase.