Table 5.
Items | Treatments | P value | ||||||
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CON | SSY | DT | DSY | SEM | SeY | Diquat | SeY × diquat | |
Liver index | 20.35ab | 20.94ab | 19.47bc | 24.90a | 0.85 | 0.06 | 0.32 | 0.15 |
Spleen index | 5.13 | 4.75 | 4.74 | 5.60 | 0.74 | 0.42 | 0.41 | 0.10 |
Kidney index | 1.65ab | 1.81ac | 1.20bc | 2.03a | 0.65 | 0.09 | 0.97 | 0.48 |
Thymus index | 1.04ab | 1.50a | 0.74b | 1.13ab | 0.10 | 0.02 | 0.17 | 0.47 |
Values are means ± SEM, (n = 8), nonchallenged pigs (CON, fed with basal diet), diquat-challenged pigs (DT, fed with basal diet), and SeY-treated pigs (fed with basal diet containing 250 mg/kg SeY) challenged by sterile saline (SSY) or diquat (DSY). a,b,cMean values within a row with unlike superscript letters were significantly different (P < 0.05).