The impact of Aloe vera and licorice extracts on selected mechanisms of humoral and cell-mediated immunity in pigeons experimentally infected with PPMV-1

Table 1 Experimental design

Group	Day of experiment
	1–7	8	9–15	12	15	22
	1–7	Experimental inoculation with PPMV-1, 10⁶ EID₅₀	Once daily administration of:	12	15	22
A	Adaptation to new conditions	–	Aloe vera, 300 mg/kg BW	Collection of spleen samples for molecular biology and flow cytometry analyses
A1		+	Aloe vera, 300 mg/kg BW
B		–	Aloe vera, 500 mg/kg BW
B1		+	Aloe vera, 500 mg/kg BW
C		–	licorice, 300 mg/kg BW
C1		+	licorice, 300 mg/kg BW
D		–	licorice, 500 mg/kg BW
D1		+	licorice, 500 mg/kg BW
K		–	0.9% NaCL
K1		+	0.9% NaCL

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