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. 2021 Aug 3;11(8):2288. doi: 10.3390/ani11082288

Table 8.

Sources of amino acids in distal ileal digesta from three studies calculated by the Duvaux et al. [81] procedure.

Dietary Crude Protein (g/kg) Sources of Amino Acids (%) in Ileal Digesta Reference
Dietary 1 Endogenous 2 Microbial 3
213 48.3 28.9 22.8 Moss et al. [83]
222 56.4 24.2 19.3 Greenhalgh et. [84]
206 46 29.6 24.4 Greenhalgh et. [84]
187 46.1 30.1 23.8 Greenhalgh et. [84]
164 37.7 34.8 27.5 Greenhalgh et. [84]
204 60.9 22 17.1 Greenhalgh et. [84]
173 56.1 24.7 19.2 Greenhalgh et. [84]
174 45.8 30.4 23.8 Greenhalgh et. [84]
213 63 20.8 16.2 Chrystal et al. [38]
163 66.5 18.8 14.7 Chrystal et al. [38]
Mean 52.7 26.4 20.9

1 Amino acid profile for dietary protein from tabulated references; 2 Amino acid profile for endogenous protein from Ravindran and Hendriks [85]; 3 Amino acid profile for microbial protein from Parsons et al. [79], Miner-Williams et al. [80].