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Table 3 Effects of dietary treatment on concentrations of serum amyloid A (SAA), lipopolysaccharide binding protein (LBP), haptoglobin (Hp), interleukin-6 (IL-6), blood lipopolysaccharides (LPS), and fecal pH and LPS

From: Use of dicarboxylic acids and polyphenols to attenuate reticular pH drop and acute phase response in dairy heifers fed a high grain diet

 

Treatment 1

SEM

P -value

Item

CT

FM

PM

  

Blood

     

  SAA, μg/mL

37.1a

28.6ab

20.1b

5.21

0.036

  LBP, μg/mL

4.1a

3.8ab

2.9b

0.65

0.048

  Hp, μg/mL

675αβ

695α

601β

42.9

0.084

  IL-6, 2 ng/mL

0.90

1.23

0.83

(0.0–4.1)

0.260

  LPS, 3 EU/mL

0.35

0.36

0.42

0.082

0.387

Feces4

     

  pH

6.60

6.56

6.65

0.057

0.697

  LPS, 2,3 × 103 EU/mL

10.9

5.4

10.9

(5.4–13.9)

0.168

  1. 1Treatments: control diet (CT); fumarate-malate mixture (FM); polyphenol-essential oil mixture (PM).
  2. 2Statistical analysis was conducted on natural logarithm (ln) transformed data that are presented as ln back transformed and 95%-confidence interval in brackets.
  3. 3LPS were reported as endotoxin unit.
  4. 4For feces variables, the statistical model included also the repeated effect of daily sampling time (3 levels: 0800 vs. 1400 vs. 2100). The effect was significant for pH (P = 0.042), but not for LPS (P = 0.128).
  5. a, bMeans with different superscripts within a row differ (P <0.05).
  6. α, βMeans with different superscripts within a row differ (P <0.10).
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