. 2023 Jun 27;7(1):txad066. doi: 10.1093/tas/txad066

Table 7.

Plasma amino acid profile of growing–finishing pigs fed the cDDGS diets with different SID BCAA:Lys ratio adjusted by SBM inclusion (phase 2; at the end of 7 wk)

Item	Treatment^*					SEM^**	P-value
Item	PC	NC	Grow	Finish	Grow–Finish	SEM^**	P-value
Indispensable amino acids, μmol/L
Arg	88.9^ab	68.3^b	66.9^b	93.9^a	72.3^ab	7.68	0.053
His	50.4^b	53.6^b	61.3^a	62.1^a	55.9^ab	2.50	0.009
Ile	64.4^a	43.0^b	44.4^b	66.9^a	49.6^b	3.45	<0.001
Leu	131.7^b	163.3^a	161.5^a	182.7^a	181.9^a	7.43	<0.001
Lys	217.8	240.3	184.6	194.4	192.1	20.16	0.288
Met	26.4	25.6	23.5	22.0	24.3	1.19	0.113
Phe	43.1^b	43.2^b	45.5^b	54.7^a	47.3^b	2.07	0.002
Thr	175.0^a	148.7^ab	133.5^b	138.2^b	134.5^b	9.48	0.019
Trp	6.7	8.0	7.0	8.1	7.7	0.82	0.704
Val	144.8^ab	111.2^c	116.2^c	168.0^a	129.6^bc	9.71	0.001
Dispensable amino acids, μmol/L
Ala	408.9^a	406.8^a	348.4^ab	328.0^b	411.4^a	21.7	0.021
Asp	24.5	26.0	22.3	22.6	25.5	2.04	0.635
Glu	199.6^bc	251.3^ab	205.0^bc	178.3^c	265.8^a	19.75	0.017
Gly	873.3^b	986.6^a	902.1^ab	770.7^c	915.8^ab	34.77	0.002
Pro	214.1	244.0	241.2	244.3	268.8	14.03	0.128
Ser	141.0	142.2	126.8	139.8	136.9	7.76	0.634
Tyr	79.0^c	82.2^bc	87.8^abc	96.2^a	89.1^ab	3.18	0.005

^abc Within a row means without a common superscript differ (P < 0.05).

^*Positive control (PC): a corn-SBM based diet with SID BCAA:Lys of PIC (2020) for the overall experimental period; negative control (NC): a cDDGS diet with SID BCAA:Lys of PIC (2020) for the overall experimental period; Grow: a cDDGS diet with SID BCAA:Lys targeted for the growing phase for the overall experimental period; Finish: a cDDGS diet with SID BCAA:Lys targeted for the finishing phase for the overall experimental period; Grow–Finish: a cDDGS diet with SID BCAA:Lys targeted for the growing phase for phases 1 and 2 and SID BCAA:Lys targeted for the finishing phase for phases 3 and 4.

^**Standard error of the means.