Table 2.
Effects of corn resistant starch on parameters of lipid metabolism in broilers.
| Items2 | Treatments1 |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NC | CS | 4%RS | 8%RS | 12%RS | SEM | P value | |
| Plasma | |||||||
| TG (mmol/L) | 0.41a | 0.29b | 0.34a,b | 0.27b | 0.28b | 0.01 | 0.002 |
| NEFA (mmol/L) | 0.40a | 0.18b | 0.22b | 0.14b | 0.19b | 0.02 | <0.001 |
| Glucose (mmol/L) | 6.98c | 8.85b | 8.01b,c | 10.22a | 10.48a | 0.28 | <0.001 |
| Abdominal adipose tissue | |||||||
| LPL (U/mg of protein) | 0.87a | 0.83a,b | 0.80a,b | 0.73b,c | 0.65c | 0.02 | 0.015 |
| HSL (U/g of protein) | 40.46c | 47.03b,c | 39.89c | 59.07a,b | 71.67a | 2.81 | 0.001 |
a-cMeans in a row without a common superscript letter significantly differ (P < 0.05; n = 8).
NC, a basic normal corn–soybean diet; CS, a corn–soybean–based diet supplementation with 20% corn starch (CS); 4%RS, 8%RS and 12%RS, the corn–soybean–based diets supplementation with 4%, 8% and 12% corn resistant starch (RS), respectively.
TG, triglycerides; NEFA, nonesterified free fatty acid; LPL, lipoprotein lipase; HSL, hormone sensitive lipase.