Effects of dietary hemp seed oil to sows on fatty acid profiles, nutritional and immune status of piglets

Table 7 The concentration of α-tocopherol, mg/L, in plasma of sows and piglets

	Dietary treatment¹			SEM
	H	HS	S
Day² of gestation/lactation of sows
108	2.35^ab	2.70^ab	2.70^ab	0.201
112	2.17^a	2.51^a	2.52^a	0.208
2	1.82^a	2.17^a	2.17^a	0.201
16	2.85^bc	3.20^bc	3.20^bc	0.201
28	3.33^c	3.68^c	3.68^c	0.203
Day³ of age of piglets
4	5.22^c	4.50^c	5.54^c	0.412
16	4.35^b	3.63^b	4.66^b	0.412
28	2.52^a	1.80^a	2.83^a	0.412

SEM standard error of mean.
¹H = basal diet and hemp seed oil in ratio 95:5, HS = basal diet and mix of soybean and hemp seed oils (50:50) in ratio 95:5; S = basal diet and soybean oil in ratio 95:5; basal diet formulated according to Danish Nutrient Standards for Lactating Sows [24]
²Effect of day P < 0.001 and effect of dietary treatment P = 0.13. No significant interaction was observed
³Effect of day P < 0.001 and effect of dietary treatment P = 0.09. No significant interaction was observed
^a,b,cMean values within a column of sows or piglets response with unlike superscript letters are significantly different

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