Table 8.
Effects of ADY on serum cytokine contents of weaned beef calves (pg/mL)1.
| Item | Treatments |
SEM | P-value | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CON | ADY | |||
| Day 0 | ||||
| IL-1β | 80.30 | 81.23 | 0.780 | 0.560 |
| IL-6 | 265.05 | 258.94 | 3.866 | 0.439 |
| IL-10 | 124.98 | 120.02 | 2.047 | 0.231 |
| TNF-α | 451.27 | 446.54 | 5.586 | 0.679 |
| Day 60 | ||||
| IL-1β | 75.06 | 69.14 | 0.884 | <0.001 |
| IL-6 | 258.76 | 247.93 | 3.091 | 0.079 |
| IL-10 | 128.83 | 137.05 | 2.030 | 0.041 |
| TNF-α | 441.03 | 408.39 | 6.140 | 0.006 |
ADY = active dry yeast; SEM = standard error of mean; IL-1β = interleukin 1 beta; IL-6 = interleukin 6; IL-10 = interleukin 10; TNF-α = tumor necrosis factor alpha.
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.