Table 1.

Effects of Heterophil/Lymphocyte ratio level on cecal SCFA contents of SE-infected chickens at 7 and 21 days post-infection (mmol/kg).

Items	Groups
	SE-infected 7 dpi			SE-infected 21 dpi
	High H/L	Low H/L	p-value	High H/L	Low H/L	p-value
Acetate	7.29 ± 3.31	13.65 ± 1.89	0.0001	11.36 ± 1.50	15.93 ± 4.57	0.033
Propionate	0.88 ± 0.14	1.18 ± 0.54	0.1134	6.26 ± 1.43	9.03 ± 2.55	0.0241
Butyrate	4.99 ± 1.72	5.06 ± 2.36	0.4735	6.00 ± 1.31	6.73 ± 2.22	0.2719
Valerate	0.04 ± 0.03	0.09 ± 0.04	0.0191	1.48 ± 0.32	1.53 ± 0.33	0.3897
Hexanoate	0.035 ± 0.030	0.038 ± 0.028	0.4382	0.044 ± 0.023	0.037 ± 0.024	0.2942
Iso-butyrate	0.14 ± 0.12	0.44 ± 0.26	0.0082	0.47 ± 0.18	0.60 ± 0.36	0.2176
Isovalerate	0.16 ± 0.16	0.26 ± 0.15	0.1583	0.28 ± 0.10	0.36 ± 0.29	0.3431
Iso-hexanoate	0.008 ± 0.008	0.015 ± 0.022	0.2804	0.006 ± 0.00	0.007 ± 0.001	0.0767
*Total SCFAs	13.54 ± 2.83	20.73 ± 4.78	0.327	25.90 ± 4.19	34.22 ± 5.82	0.3438

five to six birds were used for SCFAs analysis, except for the isovalerate and isohexanoate, which 3 biological replicates were used for statistical analysis.

Bold means significantly different (p-values < 0.05). *Sum of of the SCFAs.