. 2021 Jul 25;58(3):154–162. doi: 10.2141/jpsa.0200063

Table 3. Effects of dietary brown rice on the plasma oxidative status of broiler chickens either subjected or not to heat stress.

	TN		HS		TN	HS	Corn	Rice	Pooled SEM	Significance
	Corn	Rice	Corn	Rice	TN	HS	Corn	Rice	Pooled SEM	T	D	T×D
TBARs (nmol/mL)	3.32^a	3.30^a	2.71^ab	1.94^b	3.31	2.33	3.02	2.62	0.34	0.01	0.25	0.28
GSH (µM)	31.1	34.9	42.9	39.5	33.0	41.2	37.0	37.2	7.31	0.27	0.97	0.63
GPx (U/mL)	15.9	15.8	13.4	13.3	15.8	13.3	14.6	14.5	0.70	<0.01	0.86	0.98
Cp (mg/dL)	0.51^ab	0.47^b	0.62^a	0.53^ab	0.49	0.57	0.57	0.50	0.34	0.04	0.06	0.40

The values are means of 10 birds per treatment and their pooled SEM.

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p<0.05 for each treatment; values with different superscript letters are significantly different.

Abbreviations: TN, thermo-neutral; HS, heat stress; T, temperature; D, diet; TBARs, 2-thiobarbituric acid reactive substances; GSH, reduced glutathione; GPX, glutathione peroxidase; Cp, ceruloplasmin.