. 2020 Apr 21;98(5):skaa128. doi: 10.1093/jas/skaa128

Table 6.

Lactic acid, SCFA, and BCFA data for weeks 1 to 11 as well as for Trp-supplemented (treatment) and control dogs

	Weeks												DG¹			P-value
	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	SEM	Trt	Ctl	SEM	DG	Wk	DG × Week²
Lactic acid³	9.01^ab	5.42^b	8.36^ab	5.20^b	7.77^ab	11.56^ab	7.19^ab	15.46^ab	7.38^ab	21.22^a	20.35^ab	3.91	10.34	11.28	1.85	0.70	0.01	0.72
Acetic acid	90.32	67.71	86.65	59.51	66.79	91.56	88.60	80.60	96.13	90.93	74.63	10.37	83.64	78.80	4.91	0.46	0.10	0.81
Propionic acid	27.54	20.95	27.46	16.85	20.08	28.51	27.11	22.63	26.14	27.21	23.43	3.22	24.15	24.56	1.66	0.85	0.20	0.86
Butyric acid	15.18^ab	12.93^ab	16.77^ab	10.86^b	11.18^ab	18.14^a	13.04^ab	11.84^ab	14.80^ab	13.77^ab	11.28^ab	1.86	13.56	13.67	0.84	0.92	0.01	0.53
Isobutyric acid	3.43^ab	3.50^ab	2.83^ab	2.45^b	2.57^b	2.67^b	2.80^ab	4.62^a	3.45^ab	3.96^ab	4.78^a	0.47	3.18	3.56	0.24	0.23	≤0.01	0.58
Isovaleric acid	5.74	4.38	4.51	4.18	4.02	5.87	5.80	4.67	5.77	5.25	4.61	0.72	4.99	4.97	0.64	0.95	0.07	0.46

¹Trt or Ctl.

²Interaction effect between DG and week.

³All data presented in micromoles per gram (µmol/g); lactic acid; SCFA: acetic acid, propionic acid, butyric acid; BCFA: isobutyric acid and isovaleric acid.

^a,bValues in a row (within week) with different superscript are different (P ≤ 0.05).