Oral Administration of Lactobacillus delbrueckii during the Suckling Phase Improves Antioxidant Activities and Immune Responses after the Weaning Event in a Piglet Model

Table 3

Effects of orally administrated Lactobacillus delbrueckii on hepatic antioxidant indices of piglets¹.

Items	Day 21			Day 28			Day 49
	CON	LAB	value	CON	LAB	value	CON	LAB	value
T-AOC, U/mg of protein			0.82			0.23			0.95
SOD, U/mg of protein			0.39			0.52			0.30
GSH-Px, U/mg of protein	408.32 ± 23.14	506.02 ± 24.01	0.02	509.13 ± 19.41	632.57 ± 29.79	0.01	579.09 ± 18.43	684.48 ± 32.75	0.02
CAT, U/mg of protein			<0.01			0.54			0.12
MDA, nmol/mg of protein			0.04			0.02			0.01

¹Six piglets per treatment. CON = piglets in the negative control group; LAB = piglets in the group that was orally administrated with Lactobacillus delbrueckii during the suckling period.