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. 2020 May 9;98(5):skaa157. doi: 10.1093/jas/skaa157

Table 7.

The apparent utilization efficiency of SID AA for whole body (carcass + viscera) protein deposition for nursery pigs fed low CP diets with reduced concentrations of Gly and Ser and supplemental Thr or Glu

Dietary treatment1 P-value
CON G2 T2 SEM2 Diet3
NRC, 2012 4
Arg 127.0 129.0 146.2 143.8 7.9 0.277
His 86.4 73.7 75.4 73.9 5.6 0.973
Ile 65.7 63.1 65.5 61.0 4.2 0.750
Leu 64.9 57.5 60.4 57.9 3.7 0.833
Lys 64.8 60.6 62.1 59.4 3.8 0.891
Met 63.1 40.5 41.0 39.6 2.4 0.927
Met + Cys 52.1 49.4 50.4 48.8 3.0 0.929
Phe 58.0 58.0 62.5 60.0 3.6 0.678
Thr 67.1 56.7a 58.6a 15.1b 2.9 <0.001
Val 69.1 63.1 67.6 64.4 3.9 0.714

1CON, control; G2, Gly supplied at 20% of CON and replaced with Glu; T2 Gly supplied at 20% of CON and replaced with Thr.

2Maximum value of the standard error of the means.

3 P-value for one-way ANOVA.

4Biological maximum efficiency of AA deposition above maintenance for growing pigs according to the NRC (2012).

a,bMeans followed by different superscripts in the same row are different according to a Tukey’s multiple range test (P < 0.05).