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Table 3 Effects of LP and Environment on Immune Organ Index chickens after CP administration

From: Effects of Lactobacillus plantarum on intestinal integrity and immune responses of egg-laying chickens infected with Clostridium perfringens under the free-range or the specific pathogen free environment

	1st day			3rd day			10th day
	Spleen index	Thymus index	Bursa index	Spleen index	Thymus index	Bursa index	Spleen index	Thymus index	Bursa index
SPFC^a	0.20	0.65	0.42	0.18	0.67	0.38	0.22	0.60	0.41
SPFL	0.16	0.57	0.49	0.19	0.64	0.40	0.18	0.67	0.39
FRC	0.19	0.46	0.53	0.24	0.50	0.45	0.19	0.47	0.47
FRL	0.18	0.51	0.61	0.22	0.61	046	0.19	0.57	0.46
SEM^b	0.009	0.022	0.025	0.016	0.034	0.021	0.013	0.024	0.034
Main effects^c
Environment
SPF	0.18	0.61	0.45	0.19	0.65	0.39	0.20	0.64	0.40
FRS	0.18	0.49	0.57	0.23	0.55	0.45	0.19	0.52	0.46
Lactobacillus
NLP	0.19	0.55	0.47	0.21	0.59	0.41	0.21	0.54	0.44
LP	0.17	0.55	0.55	0.20	0.62	0.43	0.19	0.63	0.42
P-value
Environment	0.884	0.015	0.030	0.179	0.167	0.163	0.831	0.021	0.385
Lactobacillus	0.223	0.875	0.128	0.786	0.600	0.721	0.491	0.066	0.834
environment × Lactobacillus	0.500	0.152	0.898	0.586	0.330	0.906	0.469	0.944	0.948

^aData of SFPC、SPFL、FRC and FRL were all average values.
^bSEM meat standard error of mean.
^cThe data for the main effect represented average values.
The following table was the same.

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