Table 3. Effect of graded levels of dietary bee venom on serum profiles in broiler chickens¹

Items2	Bee venom concentration (ppb)					SEM4	P-value
	0	10	50	100	500		L3	Q3
d 21
TCHO (mg/dL)	111.0	119.3	113.9	111.0	104.6	5.773	0.146	0.858
TG (mg/dL)	124.9	89.00	83.14	51.14	89.71	17.119	0.701	0.009
GLU (mg/dL)	193.9	160.1	92.43	129.0	146.1	31.126	0.817	0.103
GPT (U/L)	4.429	5.429	5.286	5.143	5.143	0.417	0.787	0.507
GOT (U/L)	198.3	209.6	211.4	208.6	206.4	13.426	0.970	0.680
ALB (g/dL)	1.314	1.386	1.357	1.300	1.243	0.049	0.076	0.789
P (μM/L)	13.90	12.16	11.37	11.84	12.53	1.329	0.973	0.332
Ca (μM/L)	9.386	7.757	8.557	7.886	8.629	0.626	0.892	0.300
Creatinine (mg/dL)	0.151	0.121	0.117	0.117	0.160	0.020	0.913	0.192
NEFA (mmol/L)	265.3	495.6	499.3	605.5	453.5	105.725	0.774	0.035
HDL cholesterol	70.86	84.86	77.71	79.57	69.57	5.737	0.189	0.493
LDL cholesterol	20.29	16.57	21.71	17.57	16.86	3.528	0.575	0.992
BUN (mmol/L)	3.286	3.000	2.857	2.571	2.857	0.383	0.689	0.228

n, 7/treatment.
TCHO, total cholesterol; TG, triglyceride; GLU, glucose; GPT, glutamic pyruvate transaminase; GOT, glutamic oxalacetic transaminase; ALB, albumin; P, phosphorus; Ca, calcium; NEFA, non-esterified fatty acid, HDL, high density lipoprotein cholesterol; LDL, low density lipoprotein cholesterol; BUN, blood urea nitrogen.
L, linear; Q, quadratic.
SEM, standard error of the means.