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. 2021 Jun 4;100(9):101301. doi: 10.1016/j.psj.2021.101301

Table 5.

Effects of natural capsicum extract on digestive enzyme activities of the pancreas in broilers.

Items CON CTC NCE SEM P-value
α-amylase (U/g) 74.60 77.96 87.96 4.89 0.17
Trypsin (U/mg) 138.26b 206.19a 188.71a 6.14 < 0.01
Lipase (U/mg) 40.08c 49.29b 55.28a 1.20 < 0.01

a-cValues with different superscripts within the same row indicate a significant difference at P < 0.05.

Abbreviations: CON, control; CTC, antibiotic (chlortetracycline); NCE, natural capsicum extract; SEM, pooled standard error of the means.