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Table 5 Receiver operator characteristic analysis of serum indices in dairy cows with low- and high-differential somatic cell counts at week – 1 relative to calvinga

From: Blood neutrophil extracellular traps: a novel target for the assessment of mammary health in transition dairy cows

Itemsb

Variablesc

AUC

SEM

P-value

Sensitivity

Specificity

Critical value

NETs

0.973

0.028

 < 0.01

1.00

0.93

32.2

DNase I

0.618

0.105

0.27

0.53

-0.33

84.1

β-casein

0.669

0.100

0.12

0.53

0.33

5.4

  1. an = 15
  2. bNETs Neutrophil extracellular traps, DNase I Deoxyribonuclease I
  3. cAUC Area under the curve, SEM Standard errors of the mean
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Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology

ISSN: 2049-1891