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Table 6 Antioxidant in intestinal mucosa of weaned pigs fed different levels of PEOa

From: Effects of plant essential oil supplementation on growth performance, immune function and antioxidant activities in weaned pigs

Itemsb

CON

PEO50

PEO100

PEO200

P

Linear

Quadratic

Duodenal mucosa

 TP, gprot/L

77.09 ± 7.06

78.38 ± 11.38

78.30 ± 6.59

76.29 ± 11.63

0.960

0.981

 GSH, mgGSH/gprot

5.22 ± 0.93

5.73 ± 1.35

10.97 ± 0.80

12.02 ± 2.30

0.007

0.029

 T-AOC, U/mgprot

0.21 ± 0.06

0.23 ± 0.02

0.28 ± 0.02

0.27 ± 0.01

0.157

0.369

 T-SOD, U/mL

24.37 ± 1.83

24.79 ± 3.97

24.08 ± 1.71

24.90 ± 0.31

0.921

0.992

 MDA, nmol/mL

36.93 ± 4. 50

26.64 ± 4.24

24.62 ± 6.15

19.37 ± 6.43

0.166

0.397

 CAT, U/gprot

16.32 ± 2.15

17.73 ± 0.71

17.78 ± 1.83

18.55 ± 2.72

0.380

0.676

Jejunal mucosa

 TP, gprot/L

83.91 ± 10.41

85.10 ± 10.95

83.61 ± 10.58

84.48 ± 10.08

0.992

1.000

 GSH, mgGSH/gprot

1.95 ± 0.47

2.48 ± 1.29

3.87 ± 1.35

2.80 ± 0.84

0.562

0.121

 T-AOC, U/mgprot

0.23 ± 0.03

0.27 ± 0.01

0.28 ± 0.06

0.27 ± 0.07

0.381

0.600

 T-SOD, U/mL

13.95 ± 0.97

16.16 ± 1.79

19.14 ± 3.02

20.12 ± 2.22

0.069

0.199

 MDA, nmol/mL

37.60 ± 12.01

33.60 ± 3.27

32.90 ± 8.40

14.00 ± 2.79

0.042

0.076

 CAT, U/gprot

4.63 ± 0.83

5.05 ± 0.39

5.35 ± 0.32

6.13 ± 1.13

0.254

0.528

Ileal mucosa

 TP, gprot/L

138.13 ± 6.15

160.16 ± 9.18

131.34 ± 10.15

149.74 ± 16.24

0.974

0.999

 GSH, mgGSH/gprot

1.15 ± 0.11

1.98 ± 0.26

2.01 ± 0.29

2.35 ± 0.16

0.011

0.032

 T-AOC, U/mgprot

0.14 ± 0.01

0.18 ± 0.03

0.19 ± 0.02

0.19 ± 0.03

0.126

0.210

 T-SOD, U/mL

9.16 ± 0.80

9.11 ± 0.44

9.66 ± 0.17

9.68 ± 0.55

0.509

0.812

 MDA, nmol/mL

91.41 ± 6.66

87.18 ± 13.15

83.04 ± 3.93

71.57 ± 4.29

0.246

0.506

 CAT, U/gprot

5.36 ± 0.31

5.25 ± 0.83

6.64 ± 0.73

7.46 ± 1.03

0.114

0.279

  1. Treatments: CON means basal diet; PEO50 means basal diet with 50 ppm PEO; PEO100 means basal diet with 100 ppm PEO; PEO200 means basal diet with 200 ppm PEO
  2. aValues are means ± S.E, n = 6
  3. bTP total protein, GSH glutathione, CAT catalase, T-AOC total antioxidant capacity, MDA methane dicarboxylic aldehyde, T-SOD total superoxide dismutase