Porcine Health Management

Table 3 Major acute phase protein of pigs (Pig-MAP) serum concentration in pigs during lactation, nursery, and growing-finishing phases, mg/mL¹

From: Influence of sows’ parity on performance and humoral immune response of the offspring

Gestation	Multiparous (MP)		Primiparous (PP)		SEM²	P-value
Lactation	MP	PP	MP	PP	(n = 15)	Gestation	Lactation	Interaction
d of age
14	0.45	0.77	0.77	0.76	0.093	0.095	0.096	0.083
28	0.93	1.12	0.80	0.77	0.170	0.174	0.646	0.513
40	0.74	1.12	0.75	0.91	0.146	0.500	0.070	0.455
60	0.58	0.88	0.69	0.73	0.101	0.837	0.089	0.210
90	1.02	0.88	0.72	1.17	0.198	0.960	0.432	0.137
116	0.50	0.52	0.51	1.14	0.182	0.088	0.077	0.098
144	0.59	0.64	0.79	0.68	0.082	0.143	0.4	0.309

¹Gestation indicates the type of sow piglets were born from and lactation indicates the type of sow which suckled the piglets, defined as multiparous sows (from 3 to 5 parities) and primiparous sows
²SEM: standard error of the mean

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