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Table 5.

Effects of dietary supplementation of protease on digestive enzyme activities (IU/g digesta or tissue) of weaned piglets.

Item	PC	NC	Protease supplementation, mg/kg NC as fed basis
Item	PC	NC	100	200	300
Pepsin	275.1 ± 30.03^ab	206.1 ± 28.8^c	225.4 ± 21.3^bc	247.6 ± 18.7^b	266.7 ± 24.2^a
Pancreatic amylase	5.19 ± 0.43^a	4.25 ± 0.35^c	4.83 ± 0.47^b	5.02 ± 0.25^a	5.10 ± 0.33^a
Trypsin	4.85 ± 0.34^ab	3.78 ± 0.40^c	4.46 ± 0.42^b	4.78 ± 0.51^ab	5.13 ± 0.29^a
Lipase	22.39 ± 2.5	20.51 ± 2.28	23.05 ± 2.31	23.94 ± 1.92	22.54 ± 2.07

PC = positive control diet; NC = negative control diet.

^a,b,c Within a row, means without a common superscript differ significantly (P < 0.05), n = 6.