Effects of vitamin E, inorganic selenium, bacterial organic selenium, and their combinations on immunity response in broiler chickens

Table 6 Effects of dietary selenium sources and vitamin E levels on cytokines gene expression of 42-day broiler chickens

Items		TNF-훼	IFN-γ	IL-2	IL-10
Vit E mg/kg
0		0.879	0.786	2.019	2.066
100		1.100	0.808	3.019	4.609
Se sources
NS		0.854	0.911	1.524	2.829
SS		1.134	0.798	3.029	3.633
ADS18-Se		0.981	0.682	3.006	3.551
SEM		0.226	0.169	0.259	0.296
P values
Vit		0.0048	0.6935	<.0001	<.0001
Se		0.0133	0.0117	<.0001	<.0006
Se*Vit		<.0001	<.0001	<.0001	<.0001
Vit E 0	NS	1.000^a	1.000^a	1.000^c	1.000^c
	SS	0.992^a	0.875^b	1.203^b	2.796^b
	ADS18-Se	0.644^b	0.483^c	2.756^a	2.402^b
Vit E 100	NS	0.708^b	0.822^b	1.048^c	4.658^a
	SS	0.975^a	0.720^b	3.655^a	4.470^a
	ADS18-Se	0.918^a	0.882^b	2.257^b	4.699^a
SEM		0.061	0.042	0.258	0.294

^a-bMeans with different superscripts within a row-subgroup are significantly different (P < 0.05)
^a-cmeans with different superscripts within a column are significantly different (P < 0.05)
NS no Se supplement, SS sodium selenite, ADS18-Se bacterial organic Se. Experimental unit, (n = 12)

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