Table 4.
Effect of chronic heat stress on amino acid profile (g/100 g) of breast muscles in broiler chickens.
| Parameters | Group | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| TN 1 | HS 2 | SEM 3 | p-Value | |
| Lysine | 7.52 | 5.88 | 0.36 | 0.017 |
| Leucine | 7.69 | 5.83 | 0.43 | 0.018 |
| Isoleucine | 3.26 | 2.54 | 0.17 | 0.012 |
| Valine | 3.95 | 3.18 | 0.18 | 0.016 |
| Methionine | 1.54 | 1.22 | 0.03 | 0.035 |
| Tyrosine | 2.30 | 1.83 | 0.11 | 0.083 |
| Threonine | 3.50 | 2.84 | 0.10 | 0.052 |
| Phenylalanine | 1.85 | 1.62 | 0.08 | 0.214 |
| Histidine | 2.69 | 2.23 | 0.13 | 0.028 |
| Glycine | 4.98 | 3.81 | 0.26 | 0.009 |
| Proline | 1.47 | 1.14 | 0.08 | 0.036 |
| Arginine | 4.99 | 3.86 | 0.18 | 0.057 |
| Serine | 2.61 | 2.14 | 0.12 | 0.055 |
| Aspartic acid | 8.55 | 6.71 | 0.44 | 0.022 |
| Glutamic acid | 11.29 | 9.40 | 0.65 | 0.157 |
| Alanine | 5.26 | 4.13 | 0.30 | 0.074 |
1 thermoneutral group; 2 thermal-stress group; 3 standard error of means.