Effect of Dietary Combination of Methionine and Fish Oil on Cellular Immunity and Plasma Fatty Acids in Infectious Bursal Disease Challenged Chickens

Table 6

Effect of fish oil and methionine supplementation on serum cholesterol and triglyceride levels (mmol/L) in broiler chickens challenged with IBD.

	Before challenge		14 d after challenge
	CHOL	TRY	CHOL	TRY
F0	3.01±0.12	0.70±0.08	2.61±0.15	0.67±0.06
F2.5	3.14±0.13	0.50±0.08	2.78±0.14	0.52±0.06
F5.5	2.96±0.12	0.51±0.08	2.53±0.15	0.49±0.06
M1	2.96±0.09	0.53±0.06	2.70±0.11	0.53±0.04
M2	3.08±0.10	0.59±0.06	2.62±0.12	0.59±0.05
ANOVA (𝑃 value)
F	0.17	0.50	0.71	0.10
M	0.76	0.14	0.63	0.37
F × M	0.001	0.54	0.09	0.32

a--cMeans ± SEM within a column subgroup with no common letters differ at 𝑃<0.05.
CHOL: cholesterol; TRY: triglyceride.
F₀: 0% fish oil; F_2.5: 2.5% fish oil; F_5.5: 5.5% fish oil.
M₁: methionine (NRC level); M₂: methionine (2-fold of NRC).