Table 4.
Effects of different doses of C. butyricum on serum metabolites of fattening goats.
| Dieta | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Itemb | CON | LCB | HCB | SEMc | P-value |
| BUN, mmol/L | 7.99 | 8.65 | 9.29 | 0.39 | 0.411 |
| CREA, mmol/L | 43.44 | 51.05 | 47.31 | 2.39 | 0.449 |
| GLU, mmol/L | 3.31 | 3.33 | 3.69 | 0.22 | 0.738 |
| ALT, mmol/L | 35.38 | 31.75 | 34.63 | 1.59 | 0.638 |
| AST, mmol/L | 124.25 | 124.00 | 135.25 | 3.74 | 0.392 |
| TP, mmol/L | 64.33 | 67.06 | 69.53 | 2.24 | 0.658 |
| ALB, mmol/L | 34.53 | 35.70 | 36.48 | 0.87 | 0.675 |
| GLB, mmol/L | 29.80 | 31.36 | 33.05 | 1.49 | 0.693 |
| TG, mmol/L | 0.34 | 0.34 | 0.32 | 0.02 | 0.925 |
| T-CHOL, mmol/L | 1.86 | 2.15 | 2.41 | 0.14 | 0.301 |
| HDL, mmol/L | 0.94 | 1.03 | 1.10 | 0.05 | 0.526 |
| LDL, mmol/L | 0.79 | 0.91 | 1.04 | 0.08 | 0.447 |
a
Diets: CON, control, a basal diet; LCB, low C. butyricum, a basal diet plus 2.0 × 108 CFU/kg; HCB, high C. butyricum, a basal diet plus 1.0 × 109 CFU/kg.
b
BUN, blood urea nitrogen; CREA, creatinine; GLU, glucose; ALT, alanine transaminase; AST, aspartate trans-aminase; TP, total protein; ALB, albumin; GLB, globulin; TG, triglyceride; CHOL, cholesterol; HDL, high-density lipoprotein; LDL, low-density lipoprotein.
c
SEM; total standard error of means (n = 8).