Table 3.

Effect of a natural multi-mycotoxin challenge on blood parameters of broilers fed diet with or without addition of a yeast cell wall extract (YCWE) (mean ± SE).

Treatments 1	Item 2
	ADA (U/L)	AST (U/L)	ALT (U/L)	Apo B (ng/mL)	LCAT (ng/mL)	TCHOL (ng/mL)	PLTP (ng/mL)	FCHOL (ng/mL)	G6PDH (mU/mL)
Day 21
CON	38.29 ± 3.47	155.31 ± 7.40	23.35 ± 2.76	91.24 ± 35.01	0.72 ± 0.01	11.99 ± 0.41	11.87 ± 3.60	136.31 ± 11.86	30.42 ± 0.71
MT	55.39 ± 4.12	159.01 ± 15.09	19.86 ± 4.49	83.02 ± 9.58	0.53 ± 0.02	11.24 ± 0.51	13.38 ± 2.42	105.18 ± 16.54	28.81 ± 2.74
CON + 0.2% YCWE	58.02 ± 4.00	167.53 ± 8.29	27.87 ± 11.22	84.57 ± 7.03	0.64 ± 0.03	14.25 ± 0.71	13.49 ± 0.80	83.38 ± 7.46	30.62 ± 0.57
MT + 0.2% YCWE	42.75 ± 1.44	180.74 ± 24.08	23.8 ± 4.80	90.91 ± 9.46	0.67 ± 0.06	12.91 ± 1.12	15.28 ± 3.14	53.13 ± 12.62	33.9 ± 0.73
	Treatment p-Values
Main effect	0.009	0.664	0.864	0.984	0.052	0.093	0.849	0.009	0.186
	Contrast p-Values
CON vs. MT	0.008	0.868	0.720	0.768	0.010	0.497	0.704	0.117	0.469
CON vs. CON + 0.2% YCWE	0.004	0.587	0.644	0.811	0.211	0.064	0.684	0.18	0.926
CON vs. MT + 0.2% YCWE	0.385	0.273	0.962	0.990	0.410	0.408	0.399	0.002	0.138
MT vs. MT + 0.2% YCWE	0.032	0.344	0.686	0.777	0.038	0.152	0.633	0.019	0.042
CON + 0.2% YCWE vs. MT + 0.2% YCWE	0.014	0.557	0.677	0.820	0.637	0.239	0.652	0.127	0.159
Day 42
CON	27.62 ± 6.98	222.74 ± 14.23	10.46 ± 1.94	66.72 ± 7.11	0.77 ± 0.06	11.48 ± 1.03	2.38 ± 1.29	35.11 ± 6.46	29.74 ± 1.07
MT	46.22 ± 12.54	227.06 ± 8.28	7.01 ± 2.39	95.49 ± 16.49	0.7 ± 0.04	11.44 ± 0.82	1.48 ± 0.59	No data 3	28.6 ± 1.23
CON + 0.2% YCWE	40.94 ± 7.55	242.74 ± 15.43	11.65 ± 2.22	73.61 ± 8.95	0.73 ± 0.09	9.74 ± 0.68	2.34 ± 0.78	91.14 ± 0.00	30.24 ± 0.70
MT + 0.2% YCWE	50.39 ± 10.47	284.96 ± 42.74	7.2 ± 3.38	101.72 ± 13.57	0.67 ± 0.01	11.05 ± 0.18	1.87 ± 0.97	No data	28.89 ± 2.71
	Treatment p-Values
Main effect	0.422	0.317	0.509	0.203	0.709	0.378	0.893	−	0.881
	Contrast p-Values
CON vs. MT	0.210	0.903	0.366	0.132	0.451	0.973	0.521	−	0.631
CON vs. CON + 0.2% YCWE	0.358	0.575	0.750	0.698	0.697	0.140	0.973	−	0.834
CON vs. MT + 0.2% YCWE	0.134	0.106	0.392	0.075	0.293	0.694	0.714	−	0.719
MT vs. MT + 0.2% YCWE	0.768	0.129	0.959	0.726	0.748	0.718	0.779	−	0.903
CON + 0.2% YCWE vs. MT + 0.2% YCWE	0.509	0.252	0.252	0.140	0.491	0.254	0.739	−	0.572

¹ ADA: adenosine deaminase; AST: aspartate aminotransferase; ALT: alanine aminotransferase; Apo B: apolipoprotein B; LCAT: lecithin cholesterol acyltransferase; TCHOL: total cholesterol; PLTP: plasma phospholipid-transfer protein; FCHOL: free cholesterol; G6PDH: glucose 6-phosphate dehydrogenase; ² CON: control diet without mycotoxins; MT: diet containing mycotoxin DDGS; CON + 0.2% YCWE; NC + 0.2% YCWE; ³ No data: readings were out of range causing data to be unavailable.