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

Table 8.

Plasma amino acid profile of growing-finishing pigs fed the cDDGS diets with different SID BCAA:Lys ratio adjusted by SBM inclusion (phase 4; at the end of 13 wk)

Item	Treatment^*					SEM^**	P-value
Item	PC	NC	Grow	Finish	Grow–Finish	SEM^**	P-value
Indispensable amino acids, μmol/L
Arg	97.7^a	82.6^b	81.0^b	100.8^a	101.4^a	4.75	0.004
His	42.7^c	48.8^bc	57.3^a	52.8^ab	56.0^ab	2.50	0.001
Ile	48.4^ab	41.4^b	42.1^b	53.2^a	47.0^ab	2.54	0.013
Leu	129.9^b	153.0^a	151.0^a	157.6^a	153.5^a	5.30	0.006
Lys	222.0^a	210.8^ab	205.0^ab	181.8^bc	166.7^c	12.12	0.021
Met	28.9^a	23.3^b	26.9^a	25.3^ab	25.4^ab	1.27	0.043
Phe	41.9	40.6	41.5	47.5	44.0	2.02	0.138
Thr	144.8^a	138.7^a	128.4^ab	128.6^ab	114.2^b	7.44	0.073
Trp	4.42	4.06	4.23	4.16	4.14	0.34	0.953
Val	132.6^b	127.4^b	123.9^b	153.0^a	135.3^ab	7.00	0.051
Dispensable amino acids, μmol/L
Ala	358.9^a	301.8^bc	341.1^ab	293.5^c	319.0^abc	16.16	0.038
Asp	23.5	21.5	26.1	21.6	29.4	2.37	0.130
Glu	152.2	168.3	184.2	140.1	188.4	15.71	0.177
Gly	710.7^c	812.6^abc	865.9^a	723.9^bc	844.6^ab	42.37	0.036
Pro	179.1^b	212.0^ab	229.6^a	217.5^a	223.5^a	11.56	0.035
Ser	114.6	134.1	127.1	130.0	126.3	6.82	0.352
Tyr	78.2	83.0	85.0	90.2	87.4	3.41	0.159

^abcWithin 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 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.