Table 6.

Effects of fenugreek seed extract on serum biochemistry in broilers¹.

Items	Basic fodder	Bacitracin zinc	FSE(mg/kg)					P -value
			50	100	200	400	800	ANOVA	Linear	Quadratic
TP (g/L)	35.89 ± 2.06	34.65 ± 4.46	35.71 ± 2.39	36.32 ± 1.97	35.37 ± 2.40	36.13 ± 3.71	32.09 ± 5.92	0.44	0.88	0.61
ALB (g/L)	11.51 ± 1.00	11.11 ± 1.07	10.51 ± 1.50	10.65 ± 0.86	10.97 ± 0.52	10.86 ± 1.12	10.87 ± 0.65	0.73	0.52	0.48
TG (mmol/L)	0.49 ± 0.16	0.33 ± 0.21	0.35 ± 0.14	0.31 ± 0.14	0.40 ± 0.21	0.32 ± 0.16	0.24 ± 0.13	0.28	0.05	0.14
TC (mmol/L)	3.95 ± 0.49a	3.60 ± 0.39ab	3.36 ± 0.29b	3.42 ± 0.23b	3.66 ± 0.24ab	3.33 ± 0.40b	3.46 ± 0.11b	0.04	<0.01	0.02
HDL-C (U/g)	2.35 ± 0.33	2.26 ± 0.35	2.40 ± 0.22	2.41 ± 0.13	2.30 ± 0.25	2.04 ± 0.33	2.12 ± 0.32	0.23	0.06	0.07
LDL-C (U/g)	1.15 ± 0.36a	0.82 ± 0.25bc	0.60 ± 0.05c	0.72 ± 0.17bc	1.01 ± 0.19ab	1.00 ± 0.27ab	0.80 ± 0.25bc	0.01	0.63	0.18
GLU (mmol/L)	11.53 ± 0.65b	12.63 ± 1.02ab	12.32 ± 0.73ab	12.57 ± 1.12 ab	13.23 ± 1.31a	12.70 ± 0.99ab	13.61 ± 0.78a	0.04	0.11	0.13
ALT (U/L)	12.12 ± 2.31	14.41 ± 3.91	12.86 ± 3.65	13.05 ± 2.41	14.97 ± 9.92	11.88 ± 2.45	12.44 ± 3.37	0.58	0.77	0.52
AST (U/L)	203.25 ± 32.32	237.28 ± 32.96	231.07 ± 20.83	233.18 ± 24.41	238.00 ± 29.99	226.59 ± 10.11	231.41 ± 17.23	0.40	0.68	0.91
BUN (mmol/L)	0.28 ± 0.10	0.46 ± 1.40	0.39 ± 0.20	0.43 ± 0.18	0.47 ± 0.27	0.61 ± 0.11	0.38 ± 0.25	0.19	0.12	0.12
CREA (umol/L)	36.34 ± 25.38	18.73 ± 13.32	22.71 ± 8.88	26.69 ± 15.93	19.01 ± 5.98	15.56 ± 8.49	21.70 ± 12.37	0.27	0.22	0.47

Different lowercase letters with the same column date meant significant difference (P ≤ 0.05).

¹ Each value represents the mean of 6 replicate pens.