Table 3.

Concentration of BAs in fecal samples from healthy adult dogs consuming 1 of 4 experimental diets with 0%, 15%, 30%, or 45% whole pulse ingredients (Ctl, Pulse15, Pulse30, Pulse45) after 20 wk of consumption, presented as least square means

Bile acid	Treatment
(µmol/g)	Ctl	SEM	Pulse15	SEM	Pulse30	SEM	Pulse45	SEM	P-values
n	7		6		7		6		TRT1	L	Q	C
Primary BAs2
Cholic acid	0.149	0.140	0.147	0.156	0.121	0.108	0.182	0.192	0.992	0.920	0.998	0.791
Chenodeoxycholic acid	0.086	0.058	0.267	0.209	0.261	0.170	0.242	0.186	0.619	0.322	0.504	0.783
Total primary BAs	0.259	0.201	0.452	0.398	0.451	0.331	0.515	0.448	0.927	0.690	0.689	0.799
Secondary BAs
Deoxycholic acid	3.304	1.066	8.213	2.962	6.403	2.140	4.062	1.465	0.261	0.054	0.951	0.774
Lithocholic acid	0.882b	0.231	3.694a	1.018	2.826a	0.709	1.812ab	0.498	0.008	0.001	0.408	0.935
Ursocholic acid	0.038	0.019	0.024	0.014	0.038	0.021	0.008	0.005	0.209	0.965	0.343	0.058
Total secondary BAs	4.701	1.382	12.966	4.199	10.074	3.013	6.431	2.082	0.131	0.022	0.922	0.814
Primary:Secondary	0.054	0.036	0.034	0.024	0.042	0.025	0.070	0.053	0.905	0.596	0.764	0.748
Total BAs3	5.384	1.689	14.372	5.106	11.831	3.901	8.451	3.002	0.209	0.045	0.711	0.986

¹Treatment.

²Bile acids.

³Total BAs is summation of all BAs reported in this table and Table S1.

^a,bDifferent letters within the same row indicate statistical significance (P < 0.05).

n = number of observations. Orthogonal contrasts; L = linear, Q = quadratic, C = cubic.