Impact of dietary zinc oxide nanoparticles on selected serum biomarkers, lipid peroxidation and tissue gene expression of antioxidant enzymes and cytokines in Japanese quail

Table 3 Effect of dietary ZnO-NPs supplementation on zinc concnetrations in liver and brain tissues of Japanese quails

Tissues	Unit	Dietary groups				SEM	P values
Tissues	Unit	Group 1	Group 2	Group 3	Group 4	SEM	P values
Liver	PPb/g tissue	1.10^Aa	5.20^Ab	5.40^Ab	5.15^Ab	1.34	0.05
Brain	PPb/g tissue	1.09^Aa	2.80^Bb	2.89^Bb	2.05^Bb	1.07	0.04

^A−B Means within a column not sharing a common superscript differ significantly with corresponding p value
^a−c Means within a row not sharing a common superscript differ significantly with corresponding p value
Group 1: control; Group 2: ZnO-NPs 15 mg/kg diet; Group 3: ZnO-NPs 30 mg/kg diet; Group 4: ZnO-NPs 60 mg/kg diet
Abbreviations: ZnO-NPs zinc oxide nano particles, SEM Standard error of mean, PPb/g tissue part per billion per a gram of tissue

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