Dietary Methanolic Extract of Fenugreek Enhanced the Growth, Haematobiochemical, Immune Responses, and Resistance against Aeromonas hydrophila in Nile Tilapia, Oreochromis niloticus
Table 7
Biochemical analysis (mean ± SEM) of Nile tilapia after 90 days of feeding on methanolic extract of fenugreek seed (FS).
Items
Methanolic extract of FS (%)
value
0
0.05
0.1
0.15
0.2
ALT (U/L)
28.38 ± 0.42
28.78 ± 0.54
27.34 ± 0.45
28.68 ± 0.38
27.88 ± 1.09
0.4381
AST (U/L)
30.48 ± 0.50
31.99 ± 1.96
29.12 ± 0.89
29.60 ± 0.33
29.19 ± 0.79
0.3419
ALP (U/L)
39.99 ± 0.12
40.52 ± 0.37
39.04 ± 0.89
37.49 ± 1.79
35.50 ± 2.67
0.1983
Total protein (g/dL)
3.19 ± 0.11d
3.38 ± 0.06b
3.55 ± 0.04b
3.61 ± 0.02a
3.68 ± 0.07a
0.0023
Albumin (g/dL)
1.32 ± 0.03c
1.35 ± 0.03c
1.48 ± 0.01a
1.41 ± 0.02b
1.42 ± 0.05b
0.0289
Globulin (g/dL)
1.87 ± 0.10c
2.02 ± 0.05b
2.07 ± 0.05b
2.19 ± 0.03a
2.26 ± 0.05a
0.0106
Triglyceride (mg/dL)
78.83 ± 4.04
79.34 ± 5.68
88.75 ± 3.47
88.62 ± 6.07
94.75 ± 5.60
0.2031
Cholesterol (mg/dL)
102.2 ± 0.85
99.90 ± 0.71
94.33 ± 2.04
94.90 ± 7.72
93.03 ± 3.06
0.4279
Urea (mg/dL)
4.93 ± 0.11
3.87 ± 0.5
3.93 ± 0.11
4.34 ± 0.58
4.05 ± 0.62
0.4806
Creatinine (mg/dL)
0.31 ± 0.02
0.29 ± 0.02
0.24 ± 0.02
0.30 ± 0.01
0.28 ± 0.01
0.0701
Means within each raw of different superscripts are significantly different at .
