Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology

Table 6 Effects of different doses of iron dextran on immunoglobulins and inflammatory cytokines in serum of neonatal pigs at d 18

From: The influence of iron nutrition on the development of intestine and immune cell divergency in neonatal pigs

Item	FeDex, mg				SEM	P value
Item	0	200	800	1,600	SEM	P value
IgA, μg/mL	23.21^a	22.18^ab	19.24^c	20.68^bc	2.00	< 0.01
IgM, μg/mL	27.59^a	27.72^a	22.67^b	23.14^b	4.20	< 0.01
IgG, μg/mL	337.65	336.07	339.99	348.21	32.91	0.76
TNF-α, pg/mL	49.08^b	54.76^a	48.18^b	47.43^b	5.91	< 0.01
IFN-γ, pg/mL	191.96	201.04	180.38	176.45	28.74	0.07
IL-6, ng/L	101.90^ab	112.81^a	103.27^ab	97.11^b	15.76	< 0.05
IL-1β, ng/L	4.79	5.19	4.88	4.59	0.66	0.09

Ig Immunoglobulin, TNF-α Tumor necrosis factor-α, IFN-γ Interferon-γ, IL Interleukin
¹SEM Standard error of the means
^a−cValues in the same row with different superscripts letters are significantly different (P < 0.05)

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