Table 12.

Effect of sows’ intake of micelle silymarin from the 109th prenatal day to the 21st postnatal day on serum oxidation and anti-oxidation indices of suckling piglets

Items	Micelle silymarin (% of diet)				CON vs. Micelle Silymarin	P-value
	0	0.05	0.1	0.2		Linear	Quadratic
On day 0 of age
GSH-Px, U/mL	645.9 ± 3.3	642.1 ± 2.5	646.3 ± 3.2	648.3 ± 2.3	0.920	0.335	0.504
SOD, U/mL	73.30 ± 0.85	72.30 ± 0.92	74.11 ± 0.88	74.36 ± 1.04	0.905	0.274	0.736
CAT, U/mL	30.79 ± 0.42	31.63 ± 0.14	31.08 ± 0.31	31.40 ± 0.33	0.122	0.390	0.509
T-AOC, U/mL	1.53 ± 0.03	1.55 ± 0.02	1.52 ± 0.02	1.54 ± 0.02	0.676	0.707	0.853
MDA, nmol/mL	4.35 ± 0.02	4.32 ± 0.02	4.37 ± 0.04	4.40 ± 0.03	0.749	0.109	0.464
On day 14 of age
GSH-Px, U/mL	1234.3 ± 8.8	1232.5 ± 5.4	1233.3 ± 5.9	1252.0 ± 5.9	0.918	0.923	0.839
SOD, U/mL	80.87 ± 0.66	80.19 ± 0.46	82.37 ± 0.86	81.27 ± 0.67	0.612	0.383	0.396
CAT, U/mL	29.35 ± 0.31	30.70 ± 0.34	29.69 ± 0.42	30.03 ± 0.42	0.079	0.582	0.337
T-AOC, U/mL	1.80 ± 0.02	1.84 ± 0.07	1.85 ± 0.02	1.85 ± 0.07	0.077	0.163	0.314
MDA, nmol/mL	4.84 ± 0.03	4.80 ± 0.03	4.84 ± 0.02	4.76 ± 0.03	0.050	0.460	0.250

Values are presented as means ± SE, n = 8.