TABLE 4.
Activity of BCKD in liver and skeletal muscle of young pigs after 60 min of infusion with saline, leucine, KIC, or norleucine1
| Treatment |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tissue | Saline | Leucine | KIC | Norleucine | SE2 |
| Liver | mU/g | ||||
| Actual | 115.0 | 158.5 | 144.7 | 156.7 | 16.6 |
| Total | 197.0 | 160.9 | 144.0 | 176.0 | 23.5 |
| State3 | 67.9b | 103.2a | 100.9a | 99.0a | 8.4 |
| Muscle | |||||
| Actual | n.d. | n.d. | n.d. | n.d. | |
| Total | 7.5 | 6.4 | 6.8 | 6.6 | 1.2 |
| State3 | — | — | — | — | — |
1
Data are means per treatment, n = 6–8. Labeled means in a row with superscripts without a common letter differ, P < 0.02.
2
Pooled SE of treatment groups.
3
Activity state expressed as a percentage of actual activity over total activity.