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Table 5 Lymphocyte immunophenotyping, phagocytosis test, oxidative burst and lymphoproliferation test of cats fed with increasing levels of YAM

From: Effects of Saccharomyces cerevisiae cell wall addition on feed digestibility, fecal fermentation and microbiota and immunological parameters in adult cats

   

Dietsa

  

Item

CD

SEMb

YAM 0.3

SEMb

YAM 0.6

SEMb

p-value

CD4+ (T helper cells), %

24.76

2.56

28.85

2.60

26.44

3.12

0.261

CD8+ (cytotoxic T cells), %

11.34

1.99

10.67

1.68

11.58

1.40

0.931

CD4+/CD8+ ratio

2.67

0.44

3.27

0.55

2.30

0.30

0.260

Basal oxidative burstc

255.63

18.26

211.00

27.62

256.29

35.92

0.372

Induced oxidative burstc

1686.38

225.72

1754.00

272.30

1597.63

418.82

0.947

Phagocytosis indexc

253.67

41.51

186.44

69.85

245.55

73.11

0.733

Concanavalin Ac

234.88

16.02

228.36

8.81

236.71

14.00

0.917

Phytohemagglutininc

660.75

21.64

608.11

36.82

583.50

36.03

0.264

  1. aCD (control diet); YAM 0.3 (control diet containing 0.3% yeast with active metabolites); YAM 0.6 (control diet containing 0.6% yeast with active metabolites)
  2. bSEM: standard error of the mean
  3. cValues was expressed as arbitrary units of fluorescence
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