Table 2.
Hepatic levels of total glutathione (tGSH), reduced glutathione (GSH), and oxidized glutathione (GSSG) (mmol g tissue−1), oxidative stress index (OSI, %), and malondialdehyde (MDA, nmol malondialdehyde g tissue−1) in meagre juveniles fed the experimental diets with different levels of Hermetia meal (HM).
| Diets | One-Way ANOVA |
Polynomial Contrasts | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CTR | HM10 | HM20 | HM30 | p-Value | Linear | Quadratic | Cubic | |
| tGSH | 1042 ± 91 b | 1041 ± 81 b | 905 ± 93 a | 972 ± 86 ab | 0.006 | 0.015 | 0.264 | 0.015 |
| GSH | 1038 ± 91 b | 1037 ± 81 b | 902 ± 92 a | 968 ± 86 ab | 0.006 | 0.015 | 0.263 | 0.016 |
| GSSG | 3.4 ± 1.48 | 3.7 ± 1.77 | 3.4 ± 1.32 | 3.7 ± 2.12 | 0.980 | 0.833 | 0.956 | 0.714 |
| OSI | 0.66 ± 0.30 | 0.71 ± 0.32 | 0.76 ± 0.27 | 0.77 ± 0.49 | 0.912 | 0.492 | 0.871 | 0.935 |
| MDA | 16 ± 5 | 22 ± 13 | 19 ± 11 | 28 ± 15 | 0.164 | 0.064 | 0.603 | 0.234 |
Mean values and standard deviation (±SD) are presented for each parameter (n = 9). Different letters in the same row stand for statistical differences between diets (p < 0.05).