Evaluation of a Commercial High-Protein Distiller’s Dried Grain with Solubles (HP-DDGS) Product in the Diet of Juvenile Nile Tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus)
Table 6
Immunological responses of juvenile Nile Tilapia fed diets supplemented with graded levels of ProCap for 8 weeksa.
Blood neutrophil oxidative radical production (Abs at 545 nm)
Intracellular superoxide anion production (Abs at 620 nm)
Extracellular superoxide anion production (O2- nmol/well)
Plasma lysozyme activity (units/mL)
Plasma total protein (mg/mL)
Plasma total immunoglobulins (mg/mL)
Plasma antiprotease activity (%)
Control
0.649
0.163
0.381
483.3
36.4
5.01
81.1
ProCap 75
0.581
0.133
0.308
505.6
36.3
5.22
80.8
ProCap 150
0.647
0.313
0.914
433.3
33.9
4.10
81.8
ProCap 225
0.499
0.150
0.757
444.5
36.2
4.47
79.7
ProCap 300
0.522
0.165
0.665
444.5
36.7
5.72
81.0
ProCap 375
0.601
0.155
0.465
416.6
33.7
3.65
81.9
PSE
0.047
0.077
0.408
65.03
1.09
1.42
0.915
Linear
0.20
0.86
0.68
0.31
0.33
0.65
0.70
0.099
0.002
0.011
0.065
0.060
0.013
0.009
Quadratic
0.22
0.72
0.57
0.60
0.61
0.90
0.64
0.182
0.042
0.073
0.065
0.064
0.014
0.058
Abbreviations: Abs: absorbance; PSE: pooled standard error; : probability associated with the statistic; : regression model goodness of fit. aData represent means of triplicate groups ().
