Dietary Methanolic Extract of Fenugreek Enhanced the Growth, Haematobiochemical, Immune Responses, and Resistance against Aeromonas hydrophila in Nile Tilapia, Oreochromis niloticus
Table 8
Immune and antioxidative stress responses (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
Lysozyme activity (unit/mL)
16.64 ± 0.35c
17.33 ± 0.58c
17.81 ± 0.77b
18.02 ± 0.10b
19.49 ± 0.26a
0.019
Phagocytic activity (%)
11.07 ± 0.12c
11.12 ± 0.51c
12.04 ± 0.83b
13.77 ± 0.77a
13.91 ± 0.16a
0.0096
Phagocytic index
0.96 ± 0.06
0.99 ± 0.08
1.08 ± 0.05
1.20 ± 0.03
1.12 ± 0.1
0.6961
Superoxide dismutase (SOD) (IU/L)
8.75 ± 0.27c
9.53 ± 0.28bc
9.80 ± 0.42b
10.06 ± 0.11b
11.67 ± 0.21a
0.0003
Malondialdehyde (MDA) (IU/L)
17.73 ± 0.57a
13.44 ± 0.15b
13.37 ± 0.50b
11.98 ± 0.73c
11.67 ± 0.97c
0.0004
Means within each raw of different superscripts are significantly different at .
