Table 5.

Effect of dietary medium-chain triglycerides levels on plasma metabolites of weanling pigs (n = 4).^a

Itemb	Control	MCT1	MCT2	MCT3	SEM	P-value
						Linear	Quadratic
Day 14
Total cholesterol, mg/100 mL	56.17	38.00	46.60	43.70	3.36	0.340	0.261
Triacylglycerides, mg/100 mL	25.47	22.81	28.79	24.14	1.88	0.913	0.808
Glucose, mg/100 mL	85.30	91.70	90.53	92.06	1.87	0.292	0.542
Urea nitrogen, mg/100 mL	10.79a	8.85ab	8.15b	7.62b	0.46	0.010	0.362
Total protein, g/100 mL	3.96b	4.17ab	4.55a	4.54a	0.09	0.006	0.433
Day 28
Total cholesterol, mg/100 mL	51.53	47.18	48.43	41.09	1.79	0.069	0.664
Triacylglycerides, mg/100 mL	19.04	17.71	16.39	18.60	1.00	0.787	0.427
Glucose, mg/100 mL	85.07	79.17	76.88	64.31	3.49	0.045	0.616
Urea nitrogen, mg/100 mL	6.67	6.32	4.95	5.61	0.30	0.091	0.379
Total protein, g/100 mL	4.52	4.37	4.46	4.54	0.12	0.908	0.663

SEM = standard error of the means.

Values with different lowercase letters in the same row are different (P < 0.05).

^aFour replicates with one barrow per pen.

^bControl, diet contained 3.5% soybean oil (SO); MCT1, diet contained 0.7% medium-chain triglycerides (MCTs) and 2.8% SO; MCT2, diet contained 1.4% MCTs and 2.1% SO; MCT3, diet contained 2.1% MCTs and 1.4% SO.