Table 9.
Effects of in ovo feeding of N-acetyl-L-glutamate (NAG) on the mRNA expression of nutrient transporters of broilers at 14 D post-hatch.1
| Item | Variables | Treatment groups |
SEM5 | P-value | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NC2 | SC3 | NAG4 | ||||
| Jejunum | B0AT | 1.00 | 2.39 | 3.66 | 0.55 | 0.191 |
| Pept1 | 1.00 | 2.69 | 2.09 | 0.34 | 0.577 | |
| EAAT3 | 1.00 | 3.50 | 2.09 | 0.97 | 0.082 | |
| rBAT | 1.00 | 2.06 | 1.42 | 0.37 | 0.482 | |
| Duodenum | B0AT | 1.00 | 0.93 | 0.60 | 0.14 | 0.554 |
| Pept1 | 1.00 | 0.82 | 0.97 | 0.13 | 0.254 | |
| EAAT3 | 1.00 | 0.80 | 0.65 | 0.08 | 0.835 | |
| rBAT | 1.00 | 0.27 | 0.47 | 0.16 | 0.154 | |
Abbreviations: B0AT, solute carrier family 6, member 19 (SLC6A19); Pept1, peptide transporter-1 (SLC15A1); EAAT3, excitatory amino acid transporter 3 (SLC1A1); rBAT, solute carrier family 3, member1 (SLC3A1).
1
N = 6, one chick was selected from each replicate.
2
NC: non-punctured control group.
3
SC: saline-injected control group (eggs injected with 300 μL of saline water at 17.5 D of incubation).
4
NAG: NAG solution–injected group (eggs injected with 300 μL of saline water containing NAG 1.5 mg/egg at 17.5 D of incubation).
5
SEM: standard error of the mean.