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Table 4 Effect of Arthrospira platensis, individually or combined with exogenous CAZymes, on α-tocopherol (μg/g), γ-tocopherol (μg/g) and pigments (μg/g) in piglets’ liver

From: Dietary Arthrospira platensis improves systemic antioxidant potential and changes plasma lipids without affecting related hepatic metabolic pathways in post-weaned piglets

 

Diets

SEM

p-value

Control

AP

AP + R

AP + L

α-Tocopherol

1.64b

1.02a

1.16a

1.07a

0.086

< 0.001

γ-Tocopherol

0.073b

0.054a

0.050a

0.052a

0.004

0.0003

Chlorophyll-a1

0.360

0.780

0.469

0.580

0.202

0.510

Chlorophyll-b2

1.21

1.52

1.18

1.33

0.506

0.964

Total chlorophylls3

1.57

2.30

1.65

1.91

0.703

0.884

Total carotenoids4

0.660a

1.23b

1.28b

1.19b

0.083

< 0.001

Total chlorophylls and total Carotenoids5

2.23

3.52

2.93

3.10

0.741

0.666

  1. Dietary treatments: cereal and soybean meal-based diet (control); based diet with 10% of Arthrospira platensis (AP); basal diet with 10% of Arthrospira platensis supplemented with 0.005% of Rovabio® (AP + R); basal diet with 10% of Arthrospira platensis supplemented with 0.01% of lysozyme (AP + L)
  2. a,bMean values within a row with unlike superscript letters are significantly different (p < 0·05)
  3. 1Chlorophyll-a = 11.24 × A662 nm - 2.04 × A645 nm
  4. 2Chlorophyll-b = 20.13 × A645 nm - 4.19 × A662 nm
  5. 3Total chlorophylls (Ca + b) = 7.05 × A662 nm + 18.09 × A645 nm
  6. 4Total carotenoids (Cx + c) = (1000 × A470 nm - 1.90 × Ca - 63.14 × Cb) /214
  7. 5Total chlorophylls and carotenoids = (Ca + b) + (Cx + c)