Table 4
Non-specific immune response of olive flounder (P. olivaceus) fed the five experimental diets for 10 weeks. The diets were added with graded levels of taurine by 0, 0.25, 0.5, 1.0, and 1.5% (control, T1, T2, T3, and T4, respectively)

Experimental diets

Control

T1

T2

T3

T4

NBT1

0.41 ± 0.01c

0.51 ± 0.01b

0.53 ± 0.02b

0.58 ± 0.02a

0.52 ± 0.02b

MPO2

1.39 ± 0.08c

1.80 ± 0.09b

2.01 ± 0.08a

2.05 ± 0.06a

1.64 ± 0.04b

SOD3

70.6 ± 2.50b

75.0 ± 2.56ab

77.3 ± 2.01a

76.5 ± 1.55a

71.7 ± 1.90ab

Ig4

20.4 ± 0.35d

58.4 ± 1.10c

78.9 ± 1.38a

74.9 ± 1.83b

59.4 ± 0.15c

Lysozyme5

15.3 ± 0.70c

16.9 ± 0.11c

22.4 ± 1.76b

27.1 ± 0.79a

21.8 ± 0.92b

Antiprotease6

13.8 ± 0.63c

20.6 ± 0.61b

24.1 ± 0.86a

23.0 ± 0.81a

22.6 ± 0.95ab