Table 2.

The effect of long-term aspirin (50 mg/kg of body weight daily for 159 d) on serum inflammatory markers of beef steers (experiment 2)

	Treatment1
	Control	Aspirin	SEM	P-value
n, individual (pen)	16 (8)	16 (8)	—	—
LPS2-binding protein, ug/mL	26.9	38.0	2.05	0.06
Interleukin-6, pg/mL	40.6	33.9	2.83	0.42
Haptoglobin, ug/mL	2.71	2.34	0.165	0.47
Serum amyloid A, ug/mL	41.8	32.9	2.63	0.25
Aspartate aminotransferase, mU/mL	33.5	34.1	0.46	0.69

¹Control, no aspirin inclusion; aspirin, 0.25% of diet DM daily as aspirin.

²LPS, lipopolysaccharide.