Table 6 Blood biochemistry of laying hens fed the diet containing probiotics, fermented rice bran and fermented broken rice¹

Items	Dietary treatments²				SEM³	p-value
Items	Basal	PRO	FRB	FBR	SEM³	p-value
Total cholesterol (mg/dL)	128.2^x	113.4^xy	95.8^y	112.8^xy	8.50	0.04
Triglyceride (mg/dL)	1,126.2	1011.3	1,165.6	1,198.3	10.22	0.28
Glucose (mg/dL)	189.7	191.6	191.0	191.1	6.89	0.32
Total protein (mg/dL)	6.06	5.61	5.42	5.86	0.63	0.45
AST (U/L)	187.5	176.4	188.3	169.1	12.69	0.43
ALT (U/L)	1.65	1.38	2.50	1.83	0.89	0.39

¹ Data are least squares means of 4 observations per treatments.
² Basal = basal diet; PRO = basal diet + 1 g/kg probiotics; FRB = basal diet + 10 g/kg Lactobacillus-fermented rice bran; FCR = basal diet + 10 g/kg Lactobacillus-fermented broken rice.
³ Pooled standard error of the means.