Table 4.

Effect of dietary L-carnosine (LC) and alpha-lipoic acid (ALA) supplementation on serum lipid profiles in finishing pigs¹

	Treatment2				SEM	Significance (p-value)
	LC 0		LC 0.1%
	ALA 0	ALA 0.03%	ALA 0	ALA 0.03%		LC	ALA	LC×ALA3
TC (mmol/L)	3.39	3.20	3.09	2.99	0.214	<0.01	0.088	0.599
TG (mmol/L)	0.96	0.79	0.88	0.80	0.023	0.448	0.004	0.297
HDL-C (mmol/L)	0.89	0.83	1.06	0.93	0.158	0.094	0.191	0.883
LDL-C (mmol/L)	3.03	2.65	3.10	2.62	0.268	0.809	<0.01	0.552
VLDL-C (mmol/L)	0.44	0.39	0.44	0.42	0.037	0.456	0.092	0.496

SEM, pooled standard error of the means; TC, total cholesterol; TG, triglyceride; HDL-C, high density lipoprotein cholesterol; LDL-C, low density lipoprotein cholesterol; VLDL-C, very low density lipoprotein cholesterol.

¹Data were means of 10 pigs from per treatment.

²A 2×2 factorial arrangement with 2 supplemental levels of LC (0 or 0.1%) and 2 supplemental levels of ALA (0 or 0.03%) in basal diets.

³LC×ALA, the interaction between LC and ALA.