. 2022 Apr 6;101(7):101905. doi: 10.1016/j.psj.2022.101905

Table 4.

Effects of dietary supplementation of ANT, APS, and GPS on serum immunoglobulins and inflammatory factors in broilers (n = 6).

	Treatments
Items	CON	ANT	APS	GPS	SEM	P-value
IgA (ng/mL)	2.88^b	4.49^a	4.83^a	3.98^a	0.23	0.007
IgM (ng/mL)	1.97^b	2.82^a	2.59^a	2.59^a	0.11	0.036
IgG (ng/mL)	41.86^c	53.40^bc	79.72^a	65.03^ab	3.77	<0.001
TNF-α (pg/mL)	39.72^a	26.94^b	24.19^b	21.25^b	1.71	<0.001
IL-1β (pg/mL)	290.42^a	195.3^b	173.51^b	170.25^b	13.1	<0.001
IL-6 (pg/mL)	134.05^a	64.85^b	55.18^b	46.23^b	8.67	<0.001

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Means within a row with no common superscripts differ (P < 0.05).

Abbreviations: ANT, basal diet supplemented with 500 mg/kg terramycin calcium; APS, basal diet supplemented with 300 mg/kg Astragalus membranaceus polysaccharides; CON, control group with basal diet; GPS, basal diet supplemented with 150 mg/kg Glycyrrhiza uralensis polysaccharides; IgA, immunoglobulin A; IgM, immunoglobulin M; IgG, immunoglobulin G; TNF-α, tumor necrosis factor-α; IL-β, interleukin-1β; IL-6, interleukin-6; SEM, pooled standard error of the mean.