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. 2016 Mar 22;29(12):1761–1767. doi: 10.5713/ajas.16.0041

Table 5.

Apparent ileal digestibility of crude protein and amino acids (AA) in basal diet or diet supplemented with 0.2 g/kg proteases for pigs (Exp. 2)

Item Control CC protease SEM p-value
Crude protein 0.68 0.74 0.012 0.01
Indispensable AA
 Arginine 0.82 0.86 0.008 0.01
 Histidine 0.69 0.79 0.012 <0.01
 Isoleucine 0.74 0.79 0.012 0.01
 Leucine 0.75 0.82 0.012 <0.01
 Lysine 0.82 0.81 0.013 0.67
 Methionine 0.82 0.85 0.013 0.08
 Phenylalanine 0.79 0.82 0.014 0.14
 Threonine 0.67 0.68 0.013 0. 60
 Tryptophan 0.72 0.72 0.013 0.96
 Valine 0.71 0.72 0.013 0.62
Dispensable AA
 Alanine 0.67 0.74 0.017 0.02
 Aspartic acid 0.75 0.76 0.011 0.38
 Cystine 0.58 0.61 0.036 0.62
 Glutamic 0.76 0.79 0.022 0.28
 Glycine 0.52 0.52 0.027 0.82
 Proline 0.71 0.68 0.050 0.63
 Serine 0.73 0.75 0.012 0.25
 Tyrosine 0.71 0.81 0.028 0.03

CC protease, coated compound proteases; SEM, standard error of the mean.