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Table 5.

Immune parameters of broiler chicks as affected by dietary garlic powder and phenyl acetic acid supplementation

Treatment	Relative weight of immune organs			IgM (mg/dL)	IgG (mg/dL)

	Bursa Fabricius (%)	Thymus (%)	Spleen (%)
Control	0.092^b	0.395^b	0.068^c	71.81^d	195.32^b
GP (g/kg)
0.25	0.161^ab	0.578^ab	0.121^ab	100.67^cd	295.65^ab
0.50	0.167^a	0.719^a	0.128^ab	112.92^bc	298.87^ab
0.75	0.183^a	0.753^a	0.151^a	149.89^a	335.85^a
PA (g/kg)
0.25	0.162^ab	0.548^ab	0.112^b	96.68^cd	317.35^ab
0.50	0.173^a	0.681^a	0.127^ab	111.92^bc	328.95^ab
0.75	0.163^ab	0.756^a	0.137^ab	130.87^ab	357.44^a
SEM	0.0362	0.1308	0.0134	20.161	154.112
Pr>f	0.0367	0.0134	0.0095	0.0010	0.0310

Ig, immunoglobulin; GP, garlic powder; PA, phenyl acetic; SEM, standard error of the mean.

^a–d

Means within the same column with different common superscripts differ.