Table 5.
Effect of dietary supplementation of ginseng by-products on erythrocyte and leukocytes profile in broilers under heat stress condition
| Items3 | Treatments2 | SEM1 |
| CON | GB1 | GB2 | GLS1 | GLS2 | |
| Erythrocyte | | | | | | |
| RBC (K/μL) | 1.87 | 1.65 | 1.69 | 1.80 | 1.78 | 0.134 |
| HGB (g/μL) | 5.93 | 5.35 | 5.43 | 5.78 | 5.87 | 0.499 |
| HCT (%) | 25.7 | 22.6 | 24.2 | 25.1 | 24.4 | 1.831 |
| MCV (fL) | 130.3 | 124.9 | 129.7 | 128.2 | 125.2 | 4.267 |
| MCH (g/dL) | 30.0 | 29.7 | 29.1 | 29.6 | 125.2 | 4.267 |
| MCHC (g/dL) | 23.0 | 23.7 | 22.5 | 23.1 | 24.0 | 0.933 |
| PLT (K/μL) | 44.2 | 52.3 | 45.3 | 44.7 | 54.7 | 13.21 |
| RDW-CV (%) | 9.48 | 9.23 | 9.57 | 9.88 | 9.48 | 0.649 |
| RDW-SD (%) | 12.7 | 11.8 | 12.8 | 12.8 | 12.2 | 0.999 |
| Leukocytes | | | | | | |
| WBC (K/μL) | 21.3 | 18.2 | 30.4 | 23.0 | 20.4 | 7.163 |
| Lymp (K/μL) | 35.7 | 39.0 | 26.0 | 39.0 | 33.0 | 15.67 |
| Neut (K/μL) | 49.7 | 38.7 | 48.5 | 39.7 | 39.8 | 15.04 |
| Mono (K/μL) | 13.5 | 15.7 | 13.5 | 11.7 | 6.67 | 7.373 |
| Eo (K/μL) | 1.17 | 6.67 | 12.0 | 9.67 | 20.5 | 7.785 |
SEM, standard error of means.
CON, basal diet; GB1, basal diet + ginseng berry 0.5%; GB2, basal diet + ginseng berry 1.0%; GLS1, basal diet + ginseng leaves and stems 0.5%; GLS2, basal diet + ginseng leaves and stems 1.0%.
RBC, red blood cell count; HGB, hemoglobin; HCT, hematocrit; MCV, mean corpuscular volume; MCH, mean corpuscular hemoglobin; MCHC, mean corpuscular hemoglobin concentration; PLT, platelets; RDW-CV, red cell distribution width-coefficient of variation; RDW-SD, red cell distribution width; WBC, white blood cell count; Lymp, lymphocyte; hetero, heterophil; Mono, monocyte; Eo, eosinophil; Baso, basophil.