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Table 4 Serum concentrations of metabolites and thyroid hormone in lactating sows fed control diet or CLA diet, and serum and milk IgG concentrations of sows and their progeny

From: Dietary Conjugated Linoleic Acid (CLA) increases milk yield without losing body weight in lactating sows

 

Sow diets

SED3

p-value

 

CON1

CLA2

Sow serum characteristics

    

Glucose, mg/dL

72.42

76.73

5.46

0.4586

Total protein, g/dL

7.19

7.11

0.17

0.6358

Total lipid, mg/dL

225.50

191.50

24.13

0.2085

Triacylglycerol, mg/dL

19.33

21.36

3.07

0.5151

NEFA, μEq/L

306.50

170.44

64.77

0.0484

Total cholesterol, mg/dL

97.50

99.91

6.58

0.7180

LDL-cholesterol, mg/dL

50.33

49.40

4.08

0.8213

HDL-cholesterol, mg/dL

49.75

47.46

4.47

0.6130

HDL/Total cholesterol

0.51

0.49

0.04

0.6007

LDL/HDL cholesterol

1.03

1.08

0.16

0.7708

Urea nitrogen, mg/dL

13.49

11.60

0.66

0.0134

Thyroxine (T4), μg/dL

2.88

3.01

0.18

0.4661

Triiodothyronine (T3), ng/mL

0.61

0.67

0.05

0.1729

T3:T4, %

2.15

2.24

0.16

0.5722

IgG, mg/dL

    

Sow serum

596.42

889.33

41.54

<0.0001

Milk

42.16

52.06

4.11

0.0468

Piglet serum

187.78

253.88

26.48

0.0189

  1. 1CON = diets supplemented with soybean oil.
  2. 2CLA = diets replaced soybean oil with CLA.
  3. 3SED = standard error of difference.