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Table 5.

Serum biochemistry of lambs supplemented with curcumin nanocapsules.

Item	Treatments¹				SEM	P-value
Item	T0	T1	T2	T4	SEM	Treat	Treat × day
AST, U/L	113^b	119^ab	134^a	134^a	6.31	0.09	0.68
GGT, U/L						0.09	0.07
d 0	101	98.3	102	102	5.75
d 7	96.2^b	112^a	95.6^b	115^a	5.75
d 12	113^b	116^b	103^b	132^a	5.75
d 17	121	114	112	113	5.75
Protein total, g/dL						<0.0001	0.0003
d 0	5.25	5.61	5.26	5.34	0.31
d 7	6.84^b	5.90^c	6.23^b	6.99^a	0.31
d 12	6.46^a	5.01^b	5.54^b	5.58^b	0.31
d 17	5.44^a	4.34^b	5.09^ab	5.20^ab	0.31
Albumin, g/dL						0.64	0.08
d 0	2.78	3.18	3.23	2.96	0.21
d 7	4.03^a	3.34^bc	3.12^c	3.65^b	0.21
d 12	2.63^a	2.49^ab	2.14^b	2.53^ab	0.21
d 17	3.20	3.64	3.62	3.60	0.21
Globulin, g/dL						0.01	0.01
d 0	2.40	2.48	2.05	2.36	0.34
d 7	2.75^a	1.61^b	3.13^a	3.33^a	0.34
d 12	3.75^a	2.57^b	3.44^ab	3.03^ab	0.34
d 17	2.17^a	1.26^b	1.51^b	1.60^ab	0.34
Glucose, mg/dL						0.12	0.07
d 0	90.8	88.3	98.5	88.8	4.57
d 7	86.6	88.2	85.5	79.3	4.57
d 12	78.6^a	71.0^ab	65.4^b	64.6^b	4.57
d 17	78.0^ab	81.3^a	58.6^c	68.1^bc	4.58
Triglycerides, mg/dL						0.43	0.04
d 0	59.8	46.4	52.6	56.0	4.68
d 7	48.1^b	63.2^a	69.6^a	67.2^a	4.68
d 12	36.9	34.4	32.3	38.3	4.68
d 17	41.9	51.7	45.3	49.6	4.68
Urea, mg/dL						0.84	0.02
d 0	29.0	27.0	25.7	22.0	3.05
d 7	25.6^b	31.8^ab	31.0^ab	34.1^a	3.05
d 12	37.0	34.1	37.1	35.1	3.05
d 17	33.9^b	38.7^a	43.1^a	42.3^a	3.05

AST = aspartate aminotransferase; GGT = gamma glutamyltransferase.

^a-c Within a row, means without out a common superscript differs (P ≤ 0.05) or tends to differ (P ≤ 0.10) between treatments.

T0, T1, T2 and T4 represents supplementation of polymethacrylate (Eudragit L-100) nanocapsules loaded with curcumin (N-CU) at 0, 1, 2 and 4 mg/kg concentrate, respectively.