Table 6.
Effects of ADY on serum antioxidant indexes of weaned beef calves1.
| Item | Treatments |
SEM | P-value | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CON | ADY | |||
| Day 0 | ||||
| GSH-Px, U/mL | 197.27 | 199.18 | 3.406 | 0.785 |
| SOD, U/mL | 120.29 | 119.65 | 1.945 | 0.873 |
| MDA, nmol/mL | 6.46 | 6.26 | 0.124 | 0.430 |
| T-AOC, U/mL | 10.83 | 10.42 | 0.202 | 0.325 |
| Day 60 | ||||
| GSH-Px, U/mL | 192.38 | 207.80 | 3.805 | 0.040 |
| SOD, U/mL | 122.36 | 131.01 | 2.171 | 0.044 |
| MDA, nmol/mL | 6.58 | 6.01 | 0.128 | 0.023 |
| T-AOC, U/mL | 11.08 | 11.90 | 0.227 | 0.068 |
ADY = active dry yeast; SEM = standard error of mean; GSH-Px = glutathione peroxidase; SOD = superoxide dismutase; MDA = malondialdehyde; T-AOC = total antioxidant capacity.
1
CON, control with no ADY and fed basal ration; ADY, fed basal ration and 5 g/d ADY (Angel Yeast Co., Ltd., Yichang, Hubei, China) per calf.