Effects of mulberry leaf silage on antioxidant and immunomodulatory activity and rumen bacterial community of lambs

Table 2 Effect of alfalfa silage (AS) and mulberry leaf silage (MS) based diets on serum biochemical, antioxidant, and immune characteristics in lambs

Items	Treatments		SEM	P-value
Items	AS	MS	SEM	P-value
Total protein, g/L	63.0	64.2	1.19	0.49
Albumin, g/L	28.9	28.7	0.42	0.78
Globulin, g/L	34.1	35.5	0.83	0.28
BUN, mmol/L	6.64	7.00	0.061	0.01
Glucose, mmol/L	5.06	5.34	0.275	0.50
Total cholesterol, mmol/L	1.47	1.57	0.143	0.63
Triglyceride, mmol/L	0.60	0.67	0.059	0.42
HDL, mmol/L	0.54	0.57	0.048	0.63
LDL, mmol/L	0.81	0.86	0.084	0.64
IgA, g/L	0.64	0.61	0.018	0.37
IgG, g/L	17.2	17.6	0.17	0.19
IgM, g/L	1.13	1.12	0.057	0.90
CAT, U/ml	12.2	12.7	0.09	0.02
GSH-PX, U/ml	952.4	979.4	6.79	0.04
MDA, nmol/ml	4.96	4.54	0.098	0.03
SOD, U/ml	94.1	97.4	0.82	0.03
T-AOC, U/ml	9.99	10.57	0.141	0.03
TNF-α, pg/ml	44.9	45.9	0.70	0.34
IFN-γ, pg/ml	154.5	157.7	0.67	0.02
IL-1β, pg/mL	18.3	16.5	0.53	0.04
IL-2, pg/mL	157.2	163.0	2.41	0.12
IL-6, pg/mL	44.6	37.4	1.90	0.02

BUN blood urea nitrogen, HDL high-density lipoprotein cholesterol, LDL low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, IgA immunoglobin A, IgG immunoglobin G, IgM immunoglobin M, CAT catalase, GSH-PX glutathione peroxidase, MDA malondialdehyde, SOD superoxide dismutase, T-AOC total antioxidant capacity, TNF tumor necrosis factor, IFN interferon, IL interleukin, SEM standard error of means

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