Research Article

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

Table 8

Influence of dietary treatments on serum IL-2 and IFN- levels (pg/mL) where fish oil × methionine interactions were significant in IBD challenged broiler chickens.

IL-2
2 d after challenge
IFN-
7 d after challenge
F0 F0

M1
M2

Means ± SEM within a row with no common letters differ at .
Means ± SEM within a column with no common letters differ at .
F0: 0% fish oil; : 2.5% fish oil; : 5.5% fish oil.
M1: methionine (NRC level); M2: methionine (2-fold of NRC).