. 2022 Feb 9;8:793427. doi: 10.3389/fvets.2021.793427

Table 2.

Blood parameters of goats from 1 to 12 months of age (n = 6 per group).

Parameters	Age					SEM	p-value
	1 months	2 months	3 months	6 months	12 months
Metabolites
TP, g/L	68.9^a	70.7^a	69.0^a	58.8^c	63.6^b	1.02	<0.01
ALB, g/L	34.7	33.1	33.0	33.1	33.8	0.31	0.37
GLB, g/L	34.3^ab	37.6^a	35.1^a	25.6^c	29.7^bc	0.96	<0.01
A/G, %	1.01^b	0.88^b	0.92^b	1.29^a	1.17^a	0.03	<0.01
GLU, mmol/L	5.36^a	3.85^b	3.33^b	3.73^b	3.51^b	0.15	<0.01
BHBA, mmol/L	1.00^a	0.90^a	0.96^a	0.53^b	0.51^b	0.05	<0.01
Immunoglobulins
IgA, g/L	0.92^a	0.84^ab	0.79^b	0.42^c	0.52^c	0.04	<0.01
IgG, g/L	9.75^c	10.4^c	11.0^c	17.6^b	20.5^a	0.89	<0.01
IgM, g/L	2.31^a	2.64^a	2.43^a	0.98^b	1.32^b	0.14	<0.01
Hormones
INS, mIU/L	20.8	14.1	13.1	16.2	22.5	1.31	0.08
GH, ng/ml	3.42^bc	3.85^ab	3.09^c	3.44^bc	4.09^a	0.10	0.01
IGF-I, ng/ml	53.1^c	63.8^abc	54.6^bc	64.9^ab	71.9^a	1.68	<0.01

TP, total protein; ALB, albumin; GLB, globulin; A/G, ratio between albumin and globulin; GLU, glucose; BHBA, beta-hydroxybutyric acid; INS, insulin; GH, growth hormone; IGF-I, insulin-like growth factor I.

^{a, b, c}

Means with different superscripts in each row differ significantly (p < 0.05).