. 2020 Apr 13;11:36. doi: 10.1186/s40104-020-00437-2

Table 2.

The effects of adding sodium dichloroacetate (DCA) to low-protein diets on the dry matter and amino acid intakes of 40-kg pigs in a nitrogen balance experiment

Items	Treatments			SEM	P
Items	Control	LP	LP-DCA	SEM	P
Intake of feed, kg	2.12	2.20	2.18	0.04	0.332
Intakes of amino acids, g/d
Lys	24.9	24.0	23.4	0.18	0.417
Met	7.40	7.12	6.97	0.05	0.514
Thr	16.7	16.2	15.8	0.12	0.889
Trp	4.43	4.29	4.19	0.04	0.356
Arg	21.9^a	15.8^b	15.3^b	0.13	<.001
His	9.63^a	7.14^b	6.99^b	0.06	<.001
Ile	15.3^a	11.4^b	11.3^b	0.10	<.001
Leu	29.3^a	21.5^b	21.1^b	0.17	<.001
Phe	17.1^a	12.8^b	12.6^b	0.11	<.001
Val	14.8^a	10.8^b	10.7^b	0.10	<.001
Pro	15.9^a	11.7^b	11.5^b	0.10	<.001
Asx (Asp+Asn)	38.2^a	28.5^b	28.1^b	0.23	<.001
Ser	16.0^a	11.9^b	11.8^b	0.10	<.001
Glx (Glu + Gln)	64.0^a	47.7^b	47.1^b	0.39	<.001
Gly	12.6^a	9.26^b	9.08^b	0.07	<.001
Ala	17.1^a	12.3^b	12.2^b	0.11	<.001
Cys	9.38^a	6.90^b	6.93^b	0.06	<.001
Tyr	8.03^a	6.06^b	5.93^b	0.05	<.001
EAAs	162^a	131^b	128^b	1.04	<.001
NEAAs	181^a	134^b	133^b	1.10	<.001
TAAs	343^a	265^b	261^b	2.13	<.001

Data are presented as means (n = 6)

Abbreviations: Control 18.0% CP, CP Crude protein, DM Dry matter, EAAs Essential amino acids, NEAAs Non-essential amino acids, LP 13.5% CP, LP-DCA 13.5% CP + 100 mg DCA/kg DM, SEM Standard error of mean, TAAs Total amino acids

^a,bValues within a row with different superscripts differ significantly (P < 0.05)