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. 2023 Jan 11;19:7. doi: 10.1186/s12917-022-03550-8

Table 5.

Effect of dietary BSFL full-fat meal and probiotic mixture to replace antibiotic on the blood-related gut health and antioxidative stress in weaning pigs1,2

Item Dietary treatment Normality Homogeneity of error variance
PC NC BSFL12 BSFL+ Pro  P - value P- value SEM P - value
IgA (g/L) 0.77ab 0.52b 0.84a 0.93a 0.195 0.282 0.092 0.044
IgG (g/L) 17.68b 12.84b 21.02b 25.79a 0.011 0.001 2.013 0.008
IgM (g/L) 2.15 1.97 2.09 2.13 0.112 0.037 0.143 0.896
IL1β (pg/mL) 298.20ab 343.97a 274.96b 243.13b 0.612 0.163 20.777 0.031
IL6 (pg/mL) 132.79 144.67 123.15 116.21 0.126 0.071 10.687 0.309
TNFα (pg/mL) 52.84ab 74.83a 54.54ab 39.13b 0.146 0.043 7.695 0.106
TAC (U/mL) 10.32 8.48 13.64 12.86 0.571 0.138 2.431 0.447
SOD (U/mL) 68.13b 51.46b 78.32ab 89.38a 0.157 0.012 8.775 0.033
GSH-Px (U/mL) 650.36b 552.65b 878.98ab 886.66a 0.024 0.142 78.977 0.026
MDA (nmol/mL) 7.51ab 8.84a 6.31bc 5.39c 0.654 0.099 0.568 0.006

1Abbreviations: PC basal diet with amoxicillin 0.02%, NC basal diet without addition, BSFL12 basal diet plus 12% black solder fly larva full-fat meal, BSFL + Pro basal diet plus 12% black solder fly larva full-fat meal and 0.1% multi-probiotics, IgA immunoglobulin A, IgG immunoglobulin G, IgM immunoglobulin M, IL1β interleukine-1β, IL6 interleukine-6, TNFα tumour necrosis factor alpha, TAC total antioxidant capacity, SOD superoxide dismutase, GSH-Px glutathione peroxidase, MDA malondialdehyde

2Data are shown as group mean ± standard error of mean (SEM) (n = 5 per treatment)

a-cValues within a row not sharing common lowercase superscripts differ significantly (P < 0.05)