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Table 6 Effects of ingested E+ or E- Achatherum inebrians on selected serum biochemical parameters in han sheep

From: Effects of feeding drunken horse grass infected with Epichloë gansuensis endophyte on animal performance, clinical symptoms and physiological parameters in sheep

Items

Group

Weeks

0

1

2

3

4

5

Alanine aminotransferase (ALT, mmol/L)

E+

40.0 ± 1.58B

40.8 ± 6.18B

41.4 ± 10.43B

39.8 ± 9.50B

44.0 ± 15.64A

45.5 ± 9.95aA

E-

39.8 ± 1.30A

39.4 ± 1.52A

37.2 ± 3.56A

31.4 ± 8.62B

33.8 ± 8.58B

31.2 ± 3.90bB

Control

39.0 ± 1.58A

36.4 ± 4.04B

39.0 ± 5.0A

34.8 ± 7.82B

35.6 ± 4.51B

32.6 ± 3.58bB

Aspartate aminotransferase (AST, mmol/L)

E+

91.6 ± 3.44C

98.8 ± 15.89C

110.6 ± 22.17aB

120.0 ± 34.65aB

141.5 ± 51.16aA

139.3 ± 40.37aA

E-

90.2 ± 2.17B

95.4 ± 4.51A

88.8 ± 1.48bB

88.2 ± 12.52bB

94.0 ± 19.40bA

78.6 ± 5.98bC

Control

90.6 ± 2.30A

90.8 ± 7.56A

84.0 ± 1.73bB

91.4 ± 17.60bA

95.8 ± 11.67bA

86.4 ± 19.05bB

Creatinine (Cr, umol/L)

E+

55.7 ± 1.68D

78.0 ± 8.63aA

69.4 ± 15.96aB

60.7 ± 13.58aC

64.6 ± 17.34aC

63.8 ± 14.79aC

E-

56.7 ± 2.64B

70.4 ± 3.65bA

60.0 ± 3.54bB

59.4 ± 4.28aB

56.7 ± 13.39bB

56.6 ± 3.65bB

Control

55.3 ± 3.97A

55.6 ± 6.23cA

55.7 ± 5.03bA

49.6 ± 6.27bB

57.0 ± 9.03bA

58.5 ± 9.35bA

  1. a-cMeans within a column between three treatments not bearing a common superscript letter differ (P ≤ 0.05)
  2. A-DMeans within a line between five periods not bearing a common superscript letter differ (P ≤ 0.05)