Table 4. Effects of dietary supplementation of glutathione-enhanced yeast culture on blood biochemical parameters in broiler chicks1)

Items2) NC PC Glutathione-enhanced yeast culture SEM
0.1% 0.3% 0.5%
BUN (mg/dL) 2.58a 2.55a 2.50ab 2.48b 2.46b 0.04
Creatinine (mg/dL) 0.40 0.36 0.36 0.35 0.33 0.06
AST (U/L) 268.8a 256.7ab 266.2a 251.9ab 245.5b 0.25
ALT (U/L) 4.37 4.12 4.30 4.21 4.23 0.03
NC : antibiotic-free diet, PC : basal diet with avilamycin+salinomycin.
BUN, blood urea nitrogen; AST, aspartate aminotransferase; ALT, alanine aminotransferase.
Mean within the same row with no common superscripts differ significantly (p<0.05).