Acetylsalicylic acid supplementation improves protein utilization efficiency while vitamin E supplementation reduces markers of the inflammatory response in weaned pigs challenged with enterotoxigenic E. coli

Table 6 Pearson’s correlation coefficients between treatments and measured variables (Experiment 1)^a

	Acetylsalicylic acid intake^b	Vitamin E intake^a	Liver COX-2	Liver PGE₂	Occludin	ZO-1	%Lymphocyte
Vitamin E intake	−0.090
Liver COX-2	0.061	−0.096
Liver PGE₂	−0.297*	−0.195	−0.141
Occludin	0.037	−0.070	−0.357*	0.219
ZO-1	−0.059	0.062	−0.460***	−0.092	0.422**
%Lymphocyte^c	0.026	0.047	−0.158	0.263†	0.231	0.062
%Neutrophil^c	−0.012	−0.052	0.137	0.278†	0.210	−0.031	−0.989***

Significance †P < 0.10, *P < 0.05, **P < 0.01, ***P < 0.001
^aCorrelation coefficient was derived from 48 observations (eight pigs per treatment × 6 treatments)
^bAcetylsalicylic acid and vitamin E intakes were calculated by multiplying individual daily feed intake and dietary concentration of acetylsalicylic acid and vitamin E
^cPercentage of the total WBC count

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