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

Table 7 Antioxidant in spleen, liver and pancreas of pigs fed different levels of PEO^a

Items^b	CON	PEO50	PEO100	PEO200	P
Items^b	CON	PEO50	PEO100	PEO200	Linear	Quadratic
Spleen
GSH, mgGSH/gprot	1.85 ± 0.51	1.65 ± 0.24	1.88 ± 0.04	2.19 ± 0.15	0.431	0.546
CAT, U/gprot	9.87 ± 0.71	9.33 ± 1.13	11.34 ± 0.68	10.49 ± 1.08	0.334	0.635
T-AOC, U/mgprot	0.21 ± 0.04	0.21 ± 0.05	0.22 ± 0.02	0.22 ± 0.02	0.812	0.963
T-SOD, U/mL	255.62 ± 10.52	247.22 ± 26.99	302.45 ± 8.38	291.02 ± 9.06	0.076	0.219
MDA, nmol/mL	146.00 ± 8.86	175.07 ± 26.70	128.41 ± 5.08	117.84 ± 7.44	0.132	0.190
Liver
GSH, mgGSH/gprot	1.84 ± 0.30	1.35 ± 0.10	2.59 ± 0.30	2.53 ± 0.48	0.113	0.256
CAT, U/gprot	200.89 ± 19.50	204.58 ± 6.33	210.14 ± 19.42	206.30 ± 12.45	0.788	0.949
T-AOC, U/mgprot	0.52 ± 0.06	0.43 ± 0.11	0.49 ± 0.08	0.55 ± 0.13	0.489	0.238
T-SOD, U/mL	1127.18 ± 59.43	1132.51 ± 58.80	1161.75 ± 97.09	1200.82 ± 99.96	0.562	0.837
MDA, nmol/mL	273.32 ± 29.23	280.04 ± 26.55	266.00 ± 60.44	263.64 ± 21.62	0.835	0.974
Pancreas
GSH, mgGSH/gprot	2.23 ± 0.30	2.41 ± 0.43	4.47 ± 0.66	4.52 ± 1.08	0.007	0.032
CAT, U/gprot	4.99 ± 0.79	5.14 ± 0.39	5.22 ± 0.12	6.40 ± 0.81	0.230	0.404
T-AOC, U/mgprot	0.14 ± 0.02	0.12 ± 0.02	0.13 ± 0.03	0.14 ± 0.01	0.906	0.804
T-SOD, U/mL	232.93 ± 16.47	207.09 ± 12.92	276.46 ± 25.64	257.91 ± 9.82	0.131	0.299
MDA, nmol/mL	45.52 ± 1.12	61.65 ± 9.02	28.64 ± 5.58	29.96 ± 3.40	0.032	0.068

aldehyde; T-SOD, total superoxide dismutase
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
^aValues are means ± S.E, n = 6
^bGSH glutathione, CAT catalase, T-AOC total antioxidant capacity, MDA methane dicarboxylic

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