. 2022 Jan 12;8:808106. doi: 10.3389/fnut.2021.808106

Table 3.

Effect of common EOs and MEEOs on the intestinal anti-oxidative capacities in weaning piglets.

Item	Groups¹						SEM²	P-Value
	Con	CTC	LEO	HEO	LMEEO	HMEEO
Duodenum
T-AOC (mmol/gprot)	0.036^b	0.035^b	0.036^b	0.042^ab	0.048^a	0.042^ab	0.001	0.019
MDA (nmol/mL)	1.09^b	0.91^b	1.08^b	1.90^a	0.97^b	1.17^b	0.09	0.005
SOD (U/mgprot)	34.04	33.32	34	35.13	38.66	34.27	0.73	0.303
CAT (U/mgprot)	16.81	15.90	16.60	16.68	13.66	15.02	0.51	0.424
GSH-Px (U/mgprot)	19.79^bc	18.75^c	20.33^bc	28.70^abc	33.07^a	30.24^ab	1.59	0.016
Jejunum
T-AOC (mmol/gprot)	0.034	0.036	0.033	0.038	0.039	0.054	0.002	0.113
MDA (nmol/mL)	0.15	0.14	0.11	0.20	0.20	0.21	0.12	0.070
SOD (U/mgprot)	40.92	41.44	41.50	40.26	39.30	38.19	0.85	0.858
CAT (U/mgprot)	18.50	18.31	15.68	16.52	15.00	13.45	0.67	0.181
GSH-Px (U/mgprot)	71.88^b	82.42^ab	81.93^ab	81.38^ab	69.59^b	93.37^a	2.36	0.041
Ileum
T-AOC (mmol/gprot)	0.070	0.079	0.086	0.092	0.084	0.079	0.003	0.492
MDA (nmol/ml)	0.16	0.19	0.22	0.18	0.20	0.25	0.01	0.507
SOD (U/mgprot)	26.87	30.64	29.56	32.44	31.20	29.84	0.67	0.247
CAT (U/mgprot)	11.03	11.12	11.83	12.50	12.27	11.25	0.33	0.733
GSH-Px (U/mgprot)	79.88	78.87	71.99	94.93	96.21	81.71	3.56	0.283

T-AOC, total antioxidant capacity; MDA, malondialdehyde; SOD, superoxide dismutase; CAT, catalase; GSH-Px, glutathione peroxidase.

^{a, b, c}

Different superscripts within a row indicate a significant difference (P <0.05).

Con, basal diet; CTC, basal diet supplemented with 75 mg/kg chlortetracycline; LEO, basal diet supplemented with 100 mg/kg common EOs; HEO, basal diet supplemented with 500 mg/kg common EOs; LMEEO, basal diet supplemented with 100 mg/kg MEEOs; HMEEO, basal diet supplemented with 500 mg/kg MEEOs.

SEM means standard error of the means (n = 8).