Effects of dietary supplementation with oridonin on the growth performance, relative organ weight, lymphocyte proliferation, and cytokine concentration in broiler chickens

Table 3 Effects of ORI on weight of internal organs of broiler chickens (g/100 g body weight of bird)

Items	Diet Treatments¹				SEM²	P-Value
Items	CON	O1	O2	O3	SEM²	P-Value
14 d
Liver	2.73	2.76	2.74	2.79	0.24	0.333
Spleen	0.08b	0.13a	0.15a	0.14a	0.02	0.123
Pancreas	0.42	0.40	0.38	0.39	0.67	0.231
Gizzard	2.15	2.25	2.34	2.38	0.23	0.164
Bursa	0.12b	0.16a	0.17a	0.17a	0.01	0.109
28 d
Liver	2.87	2.95	3.02	3.08	0.24	0.233
Spleen	0.10b	0.17a	0.17a	0.18a	0.01	0.03
Pancreas	0.37	0.37	0.36	0.35	0.04	0.671
Gizzard	1.67	1.92	1.73	1.78	0.23	0.254
Bursa	0.14b	0.18a	0.19a	0.20a	0.01	0.214
42 d
Liver	3.50	3.46	3.35	2.84	0.21	0.27
Spleen	0.12b	0.21a	0.22a	0.23a	0.01	0.03
Pancreas	0.29	0.28	0.26	0.27	0.03	0.150
Gizzard	1.05	1.25	1.20	1.21	0.21	0.124
Bursa	0.16b	0.20b	0.20b	0.21a	0.13	0.104

¹Control = basal diet; O1, O2, and O3 groups = basal diet with 50, 80, and 100 mg/kg ORI, respectively
²Standard error of the mean based on pooled estimate of variation
^a-bMeans within the same row that do not share a common superscript are significantly different (P < 0.05); n = 8

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