Table 4. Effects of dietary NTS supplementation in lactation diet on blood profiles and immune response

Item	Treatments¹⁾				SEM	p-value
Item	Control	NTS0.1	NTS0.2	NTS0.4	SEM	Lin.	Quad.
IGF-1 (ng/mL)
24 h postpartum		---------27.43---------			-	-	-
14^th day of lactation	31.67	36.12	14.65	11.51	4.986	0.14	0.63
21^st day of lactation	29.46	10.73	10.27	9.35	3.460	0.10	0.18
IgA (mg/mL)
24 h postpartum		---------1.04--------			-	-	-
14^th day of lactation	1.15	0.98	0.82	1.03	0.071	0.54	0.22
21^st day of lactation	1.27	1.25	0.77	1.02	0.088	0.13	0.27
IgM (mg/mL)
24 h postpartum		---------1.86--------			-	-	-
14^th day of lactation	1.24	1.34	1.75	1.49	0.096	0.18	0.22
21^st day of lactation	1.25	1.38	1.23	1.48	0.097	0.60	0.74
IL-1 (pg/mL)
24 h postpartum		---------115.22--------			-	-	-
14^th day of lactation	70.90	130.39	85.14	188.05	20.709	0.03	0.36
21^st day of lactation	103.99	124.94	58.03	139.45	15.690	0.79	0.20
GH (ng/mL)
24 h postpartum		---------66.78--------			-	-	-
14^th day of lactation	31.77	16.17	7.31	16.35	3.814	0.23	0.15
21^st day of lactation	25.04	12.44	6.94	6.67	3.717	0.08	0.42

Treatment: Con, corn-soybean meal (SBM) based diet; T1, corn-soybean meal based diet with 0.1% of NTS (non-toxic sulfur); T2, corn-soybean meal based diet with 0.2% of NTS; T3, corn-soybean meal based diet with 0.4% of NTS.
Lin., linear; Quad., quadratic.