Table 5 Hematological parameters of Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) fed on normal and high fat diets supplemented with low and high dose of clenbuterol at both level of dietary fat for 8 weeks.
Parameters | F6Clen0 | F6CLen5 | F6Clen10 | F12Clen0 | F12Clen5 | F12Clen10 | P value of two-way ANOVA | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Fat | Clenbuterol | Interaction | |||||||
RBCs | |||||||||
(× 106/µL) | 2.87 ± 0.03b | 3.09 ± 0.05a | 3.22 ± 0.1a | 2.8 ± 0.03b | 2.541 ± 0.3c | 3.24 ± 0.06a | 0.0217 | 0.0019 | 0.1248 |
Hb (g/dL) | 8.71 ± 0.04cc | 9.47 ± 0.13b | 9.88 ± 0.08a | 8.00 ± 0.08d | 8.43 ± 0.08cd | 9.57 ± 0.1ab | < 0.0001 | < 0.0001 | 0.0013 |
PCV (%) | 28 ± 0.63a | 30.33 ± 0.68a | 31.33 ± 1.12a | 26.67 ± 2.62b | 24.66 ± 0.73b | 31.66 ± 0.68a | 0.0115 | 0.0014 | 0.0848 |
MCV (fL) | 97.56 ± 1.02a | 98.16 ± 0.65a | 97.29 ± 0.41 | 95.25 ± 1.51b | 97.09 ± 3.50a | 97.72 ± 7.17a | 0.0416 | 0.0176 | 0.9329 |
MCH (pg) | 30.35 ± 0.21a | 30.65 ± 0.22a | 30.68 ± 0.13a | 28.57 ± 0.65b | 33.19 ± 0.29a | 29.54 ± 0.23b | 0.0160 | < 0.0560 | < 0.0360 |
MCHC (g/dL) | 31.11 ± 0.54a | 31.22 ± 0.02a | 31.54 ± 0.21a | 29.9 ± .042b | 34.18 ± 0.32a | 30.23 ± 0.35a | 0.0142 | 0.0346 | 0.0244 |
WBCs (× 103/μL) | 20.80 ± 0.41b | 22.01 ± 0.68ab | 21.36 ± 0.3ab | 24.80 ± 1.39a | 19.45 ± 0.4b | 22.61 ± 1.36ab | 0.2245 | 0.0815 | 0.0040 |
Heterophils (× 103/μL) | 3.22 ± 0.001a | 2.55 ± 0.13ab | 2.2 ± 0.06b | 3.15 ± 0.22a | 2.3 ± 0.22b | 2.59 ± 0.31ab | 0.8821 | 0.0003 | 0.2324 |
Lymphocytes (× 103/μL) | 15.71 ± 0.51b | 17.27 ± 0.77ab | 17.39 ± 0.79ab | 19.32 ± 0.98a | 15.08 ± 0.49b | 17.91 ± 0.96ab | 0.3118 | 0.1295 | 0.0039 |
Monocytes (× 103/μL) | 1.46 ± 0.03bc | 1.83 ± 0.03ab | 1.49 ± 0.08ac | 1.90 ± 0.16a | 1.35 ± 0.04c | 1.74 ± 0.15ab | 0.3468 | 0.6201 | 0.0002 |
Eosinophils (× 103/μL) | 0.21 ± 0.003 | 0.22 ± 0.01 | 0.15 ± 0.02 | 0.17 ± 0.07 | 0.23 ± 0.02 | 0.23 ± 0.004 | 0.4973 | 0.3539 | 0.1444 |
Basophils (× 103/μL) | 0.20 ± 0.13 | 0.15 ± 0.01 | 0.14 ± 0.01 | 0.25 ± 0.01 | 0.22 ± 0.01 | 0.14 ± 0.01 | 0.3683 | 0.3001 | 0.7571 |