Table 2.
Item | Levels of leucine (mM)1 | SEM2 | P | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
0 | 0.40 | 0.80 | 1.60 | |||
Tissue concentration (U/g) | ||||||
α-Amylase | 572b | 681a | 658a | 581b | 48.5 | 0.017 |
Trypsin | 3.45c | 5.69b | 7.67a | 3.88c | 0.573 | <0.001 |
Chymotrypsin | 2.68b | 4.31a | 4.86a | 3.11b | 0.736 | 0.008 |
Lipase | 402 | 497 | 530 | 525 | 38.8 | 0.258 |
Release (U/g tissue) | ||||||
α-Amylase | 221c | 308a | 310a | 268b | 37.6 | 0.012 |
Trypsin | 1.05b | 2.57a | 2.48a | 2.71a | 0.474 | 0.029 |
Chymotrypsin | 0.88b | 2.30ab | 2.61a | 2.77a | 0.385 | 0.024 |
Lipase | 116 | 112 | 125 | 121 | 17.1 | 0.207 |
Total activity (U/g tissue) | ||||||
α-Amylase | 793b | 989a | 968a | 849b | 75.145 | <0.001 |
Trypsin | 4.50c | 8.26ab | 10.15a | 6.59b | 0.652 | 0.005 |
Chymotrypsin | 3.36c | 6.61ab | 7.47a | 5.88b | 0.536 | 0.012 |
Lipase | 518 | 607 | 655 | 646 | 20.7 | 0.092 |
1One-way ANOVA. Differences were considered significant at P < 0.05. 2Pooled standard error of the means, n = 3, a–cMeans within a row not sharing the same superscript differ significantly (P < 0.05).