TABLE 4.

Effects of dietary LBPs supplementation on immunologic factors levels in serum of weaned piglets.

Items1	Treatments2			SEM3	P-value
	CON	ABO	LBPs
IL-2, pg/ml	90.9b	98.4b	112a	2.53	0.010
IL-6, pg/ml	6.36	5.15	5.39	0.274	0.187
IL-10, pg/ml	11.7b	13.8a	13.5a	0.317	0.036
IL-1α, pg/ml	255	263	256	6.57	0.857
IL-1β, pg/ml	24.5	23.4	21.8	0.953	0.512
TNF-α, pg/ml	0.29b	0.30b	0.35a	0.006	0.004

¹IL, Interleukin; TNF-α, Tumor necrosis factor-α.

²Treatments consisted of (1) CON; basal diet, (2) LBPs; basal diet + 4,000 mg/kg LBPs and (3) ABO; basal diet + 20 mg/kg flavomycin + 50 mg/kg quinocetone.

³SEM, pooled standard error of mean (n = 8).

^a,bMeans within each row with different superscripts differ significantly (P < 0.05).