. 2022 Apr 22;12(9):1086. doi: 10.3390/ani12091086

Table 3.

Effect of selenium and probiotics on the distribution of selenium content in broiler tissues ¹.

Items ²	Se, mg/kg	Pros, %	Liver, mg/kg	Kidney, mg/kg	Pancreas, mg/kg	Breast Muscles, mg/kg	Thigh Muscle, mg/kg	Serum, mg/L
I-Se	0.2	0	0.62 ^b	0.70	0.21 ^c	0.16 ^b	0.16 ^c	0.12 ^b
O-Se	0.2	0	0.79 ^a	0.72	0.39 ^b	0.38 ^a	0.33 ^a	0.12 ^b
I-Se + pros	0.2	0.5	0.75 ^a	0.75	0.18 ^c	0.16 ^b	0.26 ^b	0.19 ^a
O-Se + pros	0.2	0.5	0.80 ^a	0.61	0.62 ^a	0.34 ^a	0.34 ^a	0.12 ^b
SEM			0.02	0.02	0.04	0.03	0.02	0.01
Main effect means ³
Se-S	Inorganic		0.68 ^b	0.72	0.20 ^b	0.16 ^b	0.21 ^b	0.15 ^a
	Organic		0.79 ^a	0.68	0.49 ^a	0.36 ^a	0.33 ^a	0.12 ^b
	SEM		0.05	0.05	0.04	0.02	0.02	0.02
Pros		0	0.70 ^b	0.71	0.30 ^b	0.28	0.24 ^b	0.12 ^b
		0.5	0.78 ^a	0.70	0.37 ^a	0.25	0.30 ^a	0.16 ^a
		SEM	0.05	0.06	0.04	0.02	0.02	0.02
p-value
Treatment			0.004	0.236	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001	0.007
Se-S			0.004	0.160	0.001	0.001	0.001	0.040
Pros			0.041	0.457	0.006	0.202	0.002	0.037
Se-S × Pros ⁴			0.094	0.101	0.001	0.367	0.010	0.022

¹ Data are means with the SEM derived from ANOVA error mean square for n = 10. ² I-Se, basal diet containing 0.2 mg/kg sodium selenite; O-Se, basal diet containing 0.2 mg/kg selenium yeast; I-Se + pros, basal diet containing 0.2 mg/kg sodium selenite and 0.5% probiotics; O-Se + pros, basal diet containing 0.2 mg/kg selenium yeast and 0.5% probiotics. ³ Se-S, Main effect of selenium source; Pros, Main effect of probiotics; Se-S + Pros, Main effect of selenium source plus probiotics. ⁴ Interaction between Se source and probiotics level. ^a,b,c Means within the same row having different superscripts differ significantly (p < 0.05).