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

Table 6 Effects of ORI on the concentration of serum cytokine of broiler chickens (ng/L)

Items	Diet Treatments¹				SEM²	P-Value
Items	CON	O1	O2	O3	SEM²	P-Value
14 d
IL-2	11.37b	23.28a	25.49a	30.12a	0.62	0.037
IL-4	96.97b	253.47a	276.37a	337.37a	3.24	0.012
TNF-a	214.77b	456.32a	469.87a	496.78a	4.45	0.027
28 d
IL-2	12.07b	21.58a	25.34a	29.72a	1.02	0.021
IL-4	103.42b	188.67a	205.67a	211.34a	3.45	0.019
TNF-a	425.38b	675.30a	692.34a	732.04a	6.72	0.039
42 d
IL-2	14.24b	26.23a	28.37a	28.97a	0.95	0.019
IL-4	114.37b	190.24a	219.37a	286.34a	1.38	0.031
TNF-a	109.37b	385.34a	403.37a	465.35a	7.65	0.047

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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