Effect of dietary canthaxanthin and 25-hydroxycholecalciferol supplementation on the performance of duck breeders under two different vitamin regimens

Table 5 Antioxidant status of duck breeders and eggs^a

Vitamin level	CX + 25-OH-D₃	Female		Male		Egg yolk^b
Vitamin level	CX + 25-OH-D₃	MDA, nmol/mL	Protein carbonyl, nmol/mgpro	MDA, nmol/mL	Protein carbonyl, nmol/mgpro	MDA, nmol/mL	Protein carbonyl, nmol/mgpro
REGULAR	-	10.41	0.95	8.90	1.23	235.81	22.01
REGULAR	+	10.13	0.79	7.71	1.03	181.21	21.51
HIGH	-	10.45	0.80	7.92	0.73	174.69	20.99
HIGH	+	9.27	0.71	7.05	0.91	156.86	18.89
SEM		0.30	0.13	0.25	0.08	5.34	0.65
P-value
Vitamin		0.505	0.665	0.084	0.037	<0.001	0.175
CX + 25-OH-D₃		0.235	0.641	0.034	0.934	<0.001	0.302
Vitamin × (CX + 25-OH-D₃)		0.460	0.895	0.729	0.204	0.073	0.516

^a CX canthaxanthin, 25-OH-D ₃ 25-hydroxycholecalciferol, MDA malondialdehyde
^b Mean of 5 times of sample analysis at wk 8, 16, 24, 32 and 40 of the trial

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