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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2008 Oct 3.
Published in final edited form as: Mol Reprod Dev. 2007 Sep;74(9):1228–1235. doi: 10.1002/mrd.20682

Table 1.

The concentration of free amino acids in porcine oviductal fluid, uterine fluid tand PZM3 (mmol/L).

Amino acid Day3 Oviductal Fluid
Day5 Oviductal Fluid
Day3 Uterine Fluid
Day5 Uterine Fluid
PZM3 with Sigma amino acid solution (BME and MEM)
Mean ± SEM Mean ± SEM Mean ± SEM Mean ± SEM

Aspartic acid, ASP 0.2365 ± 0.0233 a 0.1063 ± 0.0241 a 0.1739 ± 0.0667 a 0.1286 ± 0.0533 a 0.10
Glutamic acid, GLU 1.0318 ± 0.1991 a 0.4826 ± 0.1324 a 0.3954 ± 0.0548 a 0.9983 ± 0.7053 a 0.10
Asparagine, ASN 0.0178 ± 0.0147 a 0.0250 ± 0.0107 a 0.0267 ± 0.0199 a 0.0128 ± 0.0071 a 0.10
Serine, SER 0.5401 ± 0.0509 ab 0.2359 ± 0.0477 c 0.7704 ± 0.1191 a 0.3267 ± 0.0954 bc 0.10
Glutamine, GLN 0.2361 ± 0.0446 a 0.1215 ± 0.0512 a 0.1637 ± 0.0259 a 0.1508 ± 0.0726 a 1.00
Histidine, HIS 0.1352 ± 0.0073 a 0.0525 ± 0.0078 b 0.0855 ± 0.0336 ab 0.0416 ± 0.0078 b 0.05
Glycine, GLY 4.0713 ± 1.3784 a 1.7012 ± 0.2295 a 5.3570 ± 2.6163 a 3.8132 ± 2.5416 a 0.10
Threonine, THR 0.2884 ± 0.0319 a 0.1416 ± 0.0283 b 0.1320 ± 0.0752 b 0.0658 ± 0.0166 b 0.20
Cysteine 0.2197 ± 0.0389 a 0.0998 ± 0.0277 b 0.1171 ± 0.0401 b 0.0540 ± 0.0275 b 0
Citrulline, CIT 0.1192 ± 0.0304 a 0.0580 ± 0.0229 a 0.0846 ± 0.0385 a 0.0535 ± 0.0377 a 0
β-Alanine, β-ALA 0.1007 ± 0.0343 a 0.0449 ± 0.0185 a 0.0710 ± 0.0328 a 0.0731 ± 0.0310 a 0
Arginine, ARG 1.6999 ± 0.5158 a 0.4869 ± 0.2966 b 0.5933 ± 0.3455 b 0.2223 ± 0.1477 b 0.10
Alanine, ALA 1.1799 ± 0.4215 a 0.7650 ± 0.2267 a 1.1631 ± 0.9846 a 0.4852 ± 0.3208 a 0.10
Taurine, TUAR 0.5894 ± 0.4277 a 0.5077 ± 0.1248 a 0.3055 ± 0.2414 a 3.1703 ± 2.4175 a 0
Tyrosine, TYR 0.1541 ± 0.0128 a 0.0600 ± 0.0085 b 0.0637 ± 0.0377 b 0.0362 ± 0.0126 b 0.10
CYSTINE 0 0 0 0 0.05
Valine, VAL 1.0491 ± 0.2614 a 0.4674 ± 0.1220 b 0.3129 ± 0.1109 b 0.1755 ± 0.0407 b 0.20
Methionine, MET 0.0901 ± 0.0107 a 0.0339 ± 0.0057 b 0.0423 ± 0.0211 b 0.0166 ± 0.0073 b 0.05
Tryptophan, TRP 0.0294 ± 0.0014 a 0.0122 ± 0.0015 a 0.0285 ± 0.0024 a 0.0296 ± 0.0159 a 0.02
Phenylalanine, PHE 0.1638 ± 0.0215 a 0.0642 ± 0.0092 b 0.1320 ± 0.0380 ab 0.0851 ± 0.0284 ab 0.10
Isoleucine, ILE 0.1715 ± 0.0148 a 0.0667 ± 0.0097 b 0.0779 ± 0.0475 b 0.0404 ± 0.0187 b 0.20
Ornithine, ORN 0.0066 ± 0.0023 a 0.0011 ± 0.0009 a 0.0070 ± 0.0029 a 0.0041 ± 0.0020 a 0
Leucine, LEU 0.3593 ± 0.0271 a 0.1418 ± 0.0209 b 0.1874 ± 0.0901 b 0.1029 ± 0.0438 b 0.20
Lysine, LYS 0.3606 ± 0.0544 a 0.1163 ± 0.0232 b 0.1364 ± 0.0745 b 0.0474 ± 0.0108 b 0.20
Proline, PRO 0.2060 ± 0.0058 a 0.0998 ± 0.0193 b 0.1152 ± 0.0403 b 0.0955 ± 0.0229 b 0.10
Total 13.0567 ± 3.6310 a 5.8923 ± 1.4697 b 10.5427± 5.1598 a 10.2295± 6.6851 a 3.17 c

Values with different letters within the same row differ (p<0.05).