Table 3.
Means of bone weight, ash, collagenous protein (ColP), noncollagenous protein (NColP), tissue volume (TV), bone mineral content (BMC), and bone mineral density (BMD) from total bone, cortical, and trabecular bones according to TSAA levels at 12 wk of age.
| Traits | TSAA levels (%) |
P-value |
SE | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 70% | 85% | 100% | ANOVA | Regression | ||
| Weight (g) | 3.326 | 3.595 | 3.951 | NS | NS | 0.1188 |
| Ash (g) | 1.491 | 1.7091 | 1.8331 | <0.0001 | NS | 0.0409 |
| ColP (%) | 40.167 | 33.2351 | 28.4841 | 0.0019 | NS | 1.5876 |
| ColP (g) | 0.569 | 0.544 | 0.521 | NS | NS | 0.0096 |
| NColP (%) | 0.492 | 0.4121 | 0.458 | 0.0498 | NS | 0.0140 |
| NColP (mg) | 7.011 | 7.167 | 8.5721 | 0.0275 | NS | 0.2872 |
| Total bone TV (mm3) | 247.290 | 280.1101 | 291.6501 | 0.0054 | NS | 6.7643 |
| Total BMC (mg) | 65.728 | 74.9681 | 77.5621 | 0.0038 | NS | 1.7853 |
| Total BMD (mg/mm3) | 0.266 | 0.268 | 0.266 | NS | NS | 0.0038 |
| Cortical TV (mm3) | 62.767 | 69.313 | 72.0461 | 0.0446 | NS | 1.6853 |
| Cortical BMC (mg) | 50.751 | 55.391 | 57.3081 | 0.0380 | NS | 1.1692 |
| Cortical BMD (mg/mm3) | 0.809 | 0.799 | 0.797 | NS | NS | 0.0076 |
| Trabecular TV (mm3) | 9.368 | 11.418 | 12.5831 | 0.0351 | NS | 0.5627 |
| Trabecular BMC (mg) | 5.863 | 7.253 | 7.8121 | 0.0392 | NS | 0.3490 |
| Trabecular BMD (mg/mm3) | 0.626 | 0.636 | 0.621 | NS | NS | 0.0038 |
Abbreviations: NS, not significant; TSAA, total sulfur amino acid.
N = 6.
1
Means differ from 70% of TSAA by Dunnett test (P ≤ 0.05).