Table 2.

Percentages of peripheral blood T cell and B cell subpopulations in turkeys at 9 weeks of age.

	Spleen				Blood
	CD4+	CD8+	CD4+CD8+	IgM+	CD4+	CD8+	CD4+CD8+	IgM+
Treatment1
LLAL	35.21	22.33ab	1.085	13.66	13.39b	1.624	0.171	5.923
LLAH	34.10	25.98ab	1.258	15.03	18.60a	1.856	0.185	6.058
LHAL	33.70	27.99a	1.275	15.38	15.86ab	1.841	0.218	6.005
LHAH	35.69	20.02b	1.270	17.94	14.26b	1.580	0.150	5.605
SEM	0.938	1.067	0.057	0.477	0.625	0.086	0.012	0.109
Lysine (Lys)
Low (L)	34.66	24.15	1.171	14.34b	15.99	1.740	0.178	5.990
High (H)	34.69	24.00	1.273	16.66a	15.06	1.711	0.184	5.805
Arginine (Arg)
Low (L)	34.46	25.16	1.180	14.52b	14.62	1.733	0.194	5.964
High (H)	34.89	23.00	1.264	16.48a	16.43	1.718	0.167	5.831
P value
Lys	0.985	0.939	0.395	0.008	0.396	0.868	0.820	0.406
Arg	0.824	0.269	0.480	0.023	0.105	0.935	0.270	0.551
Lys × Arg	0.434	0.005	0.455	0.469	0.004	0.170	0.101	0.233

¹L_LA_L diet with low Lys and low Arg levels; L_LA_H diet with low Lys and high Arg levels; L_HA_L diet with high Lys and low Arg levels; L_HA_H diet with high Lys and high Arg levels.

^a,bValues in same column with no common superscripts denote a significant difference (P ≤ 0.05).