Table 3.

Effect of ⁶⁰Co γ-ray irradiated Astragalus polysaccharides (IAPS) on the cecal microbiota composition and abundances of cyclophosphamide (CPM) immunosuppressed broilers on the phylum level.

Items	Treatments1			SEM	P-value
	Control	CPM	IAPS
Firmicutes (%)	80.36	80.65	88.22	2.82	0.462
Bacteroidetes (%)	12.41	16.43	5.48	2.03	0.097
Proteobacteria (%)	6.29	2.49	4.93	0.94	0.262
Tenericutes (%)	0.87	0.33	1.23	0.17	0.166

Data are represented as the means with pooled SEM (n = 6).

¹Control, broilers were fed a basal diet and injected with saline; CPM, CPM-injected broilers were fed a basal diet; IAPS, CPM-injected broilers were fed a basal diet containing 900 mg/kg IAPS.