Table 6.
The AA profile (g/100 g CP) of deposited protein in the viscera of nursery pigs fed low CP diets with reduced concentrations of Gly and Ser and supplemental Thr or Glu1
Dietary treatment2 | P-value | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
CON | G2 | T2 | SEM3 | Diet4 | |
Essential AA | |||||
Arg | 5.91b | 6.48a | 5.97b | 0.01 | 0.021 |
His | 2.27 | 2.15 | 2.41 | 0.13 | 0.434 |
Ile | 2.98 | 3.53 | 3.51 | 0.13 | 0.056 |
Leu | 6.97 | 7.11 | 7.42 | 0.19 | 0.338 |
Lys | 6.05 | 6.31 | 5.85 | 0.24 | 0.454 |
Met | 1.65b | 1.96a | 1.82ab | 0.06 | 0.042 |
Phe | 3.59c | 3.94b | 4.28a | 0.10 | 0.002 |
Thr | 3.60b | 3.70b | 4.75a | 0.12 | 0.004 |
Trp | 0.87 | 0.96 | 1.02 | 0.03 | 0.081 |
Val | 4.67 | 4.90 | 5.16 | 0.13 | 0.081 |
NEAA | |||||
Ala | 6.15 | 6.12 | 6.05 | 0.18 | 0.921 |
Asp | 7.77 | 8.07 | 8.06 | 0.16 | 0.421 |
Cys | 1.31ab | 1.39a | 1.17b | 0.05 | 0.040 |
Glu | 11.32c | 12.51a | 11.95b | 0.20 | 0.026 |
Gly | 8.16 | 8.14 | 7.18 | 0.44 | 0.227 |
Pro | 5.56 | 5.43 | 5.72 | 0.32 | 0.823 |
Ser | 3.81 | 3.84 | 3.87 | 0.08 | 0.878 |
1Visceral fraction included heart, lungs, spleen, pancreas, kidneys, liver (drained gall bladder), and empty bladder and gastrointestinal tract.
2CON, control; G2, Gly supplied at 20% of CON and replaced with Glu; T2 Gly supplied at 20% of CON and replaced with Thr.
3Maximum value of the standard error of the means.
4 P-value for one-way ANOVA.
a-cMeans followed by different superscripts in the same row are different according to a Tukey’s multiple range test (P < 0.05).