Stimbiotic supplementation modulated intestinal inflammatory response and improved broilers performance in an experimentally-induced necrotic enteritis infection model

Table 7 Effects of dietary treatment and NE challenge on blood profile in broilers (Exp. 2)¹

Treatment (T)	Challenge (C)	Lymphocyte, %	IgA, mg/dL	IgG, mg/dL	IgM, mg/dL
CON	NE-	71.3	2.00	4.75	2.00
STB	NE-	71.0	1.25	4.75	1.75
CB	NE-	72.6	1.75	4.25	1.75
CON	NE +	72.4	1.25	2.00	1.25
STB	NE +	72.7	1.25	3.75	1.25
CB	NE +	72.5	1.50	3.75	1.50
SEM²		1.44	0.332	0.663	0.326
Treatment
CON		71.9	1.63	3.38	1.63
STB		71.8	1.63	4.25	1.50
CB		72.6	1.50	4.00	1.63
	Challenge
	NE-	71.6	1.83	4.58^a	1.83
	NE+	72.5	1.33	3.17^b	1.33
P-value
T		0.85	0.91	0.42	0.92
C		0.44	0.08	0.02	0.08
T × C		0.83	0.76	0.23	0.76

n = 4 birds/treatment. All birds received allotted treatment diet starting study 0 d
¹CON, no feed additives; STB, 100 mg/kg Signis from 0–30 d; CB, 100 mg/kg Signis, and 500 mg/kg Poultry star, 150 mg/kg Digestarom and 500 mg/kg Saf-mannan from 0–7, 7–21 and 21–30 d, respectively; NE-, non NE challenge; NE+ , NE challenge
²SEM standard error of mean
^a,bMeans in the same column with different superscripts are significantly different by Student’s test (P < 0.05)

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