The Immune Enhancement of Sodium Lauryl Sulfoacetate in Chickens

Table 4

Influence of SLS on immune organ indices of NDV-vaccinated chickens.

Organs	Group (dose)	Organ index
		10 d	17 d	24 d	31 d	38 d	45 d
Thymus	SLS (4 mg/kg)	$0.335\pm 0.015$	$0.351\pm 0.026$	$0.384\pm 0.021$	$0.366\pm 0.022$	$0.360\pm 0.024$	$0.335\pm 0.015$
	SLS (2 mg/kg)	$0.327\pm 0.027$	$0.352\pm 0.023$	$0.383\pm 0.029$	$0.368\pm 0.019$	$0.361\pm 0.021$	$0.327\pm 0.027$
	SLS (1 mg/kg)	$0.333\pm 0.028$	$0.359\pm 0.016$	$0.380\pm 0.028$	$0.365\pm 0.031$	$0.363\pm 0.026$	$0.333\pm 0.028$
	Normal saline	$0.328\pm 0.025$	$0.357\pm 0.025$	$0.380\pm 0.014$	$0.364\pm 0.023$	$0.362\pm 0.024$	$0.328\pm 0.025$
Spleen	SLS (4 mg/kg)	$0.163\pm 0.018$	$0.222\pm 0.025$	$0.265\pm 0.023$	$0.270\pm 0.027$	$0.242\pm 0.020$	$0.232\pm 0.017$
	SLS (2 mg/kg)	$0.169\pm 0.019$	$0.226\pm 0.021$	$0.270\pm 0.012$	$0.276\pm 0.018$	$0.246\pm 0.017$	$0.269\pm 0.016$
	SLS (1 mg/kg)	$0.160\pm 0.029$	$0.223\pm 0.026$	$0.264\pm 0.019$	$0.273\pm 0.022$	$0.243\pm 0.016$	$0.230\pm 0.019$
	Normal saline	$0.163\pm 0.016$	$0.224\pm 0.013$	$0.266\pm 0.011$	$0.274\pm 0.027$	$0.244\pm 0.015$	$0.234\pm 0.014$
Cloacal bursa	SLS (4 mg/kg)	$0.331\pm 0.031$	$0.354\pm 0.027$	$0.373\pm 0.025$	$0.355\pm 0.022$	$0.349\pm 0.021$	$0.321\pm 0.022$
	SLS (2 mg/kg)	$0.329\pm 0.030$	$0.357\pm 0.029$	$0.369\pm 0.033$	$0.368\pm 0.028$	$0.359\pm 0.025$	$0.325\pm 0.023$
	SLS (1 mg/kg)	$0.330\pm 0.026$	$0.355\pm 0.031$	$0.371\pm 0.037$	$0.363\pm 0.032$	$0.357\pm 0.029$	$0.328\pm 0.024$
	Normal saline	$0.332\pm 0.019$	$0.352\pm 0.022$	$0.370\pm 0.027$	$0.355\pm 0.028$	$0.348\pm 0.024$	$0.331\pm 0.017$

The data are expressed as mean $\pm$ SD ($n=6$).