Table 2.

Serum Gln, Glu, BUN, and INS indicators of calves among different groups (N = 9 per group).

	Treatment						p-Value
Items	CON	1%Gln	2%Gln	3%Gln	4%Gln	SEM	T	T × D	Linear	Quadratic
L-Gln, mmol/L
0 d	0.67	0.66	0.68	0.65	0.68	0.02	0.77		0.81	0.57
7 d	0.71	0.76	0.75	0.70	0.74	0.02	0.20		0.37	0.63
14 d	0.72	0.74	0.76	0.73	0.75	0.03	0.93		0.59	0.89
16 d	0.75	0.75	0.77	0.77	0.78	0.02	0.64		0.56	0.79
18 d	0.74	0.78	0.77	0.81	0.79	0.03	0.46		0.31	0.16
21 d	0.80	0.81	0.74	0.80	0.81	0.04	0.64		0.18	0.59
28 d	0.82	0.84	0.81	0.81	0.84	0.04	0.97		0.73	0.63
Pre-weaning	0.70	0.72	0.73	0.69	0.72	0.02	0.39	0.58	0.66	0.29
Post-weaning	0.78	0.80	0.77	0.80	0.81	0.03	0.67	0.69	0.19	0.72
Overall	0.74	0.76	0.75	0.75	0.77	0.01	0.72	0.44	0.97	0.33
Glu, mmol/L
0 d	6.12	6.16	6.12	6.16	6.14	0.18	1.00		0.98	0.86
7 d	6.18	6.06	5.99	6.04	5.51	0.23	0.29		0.83	0.44
14 d	5.60	5.52	5.68	5.39	5.32	0.12	0.17		0.46	0.45
16 d	4.20	4.36	4.34	4.31	4.32	0.17	0.97		0.61	0.69
18 d	5.23	5.44	4.93	5.09	5.11	0.18	0.35		0.27	0.26
21 d	5.43	5.34	5.20	5.23	5.42	0.14	0.13		0.29	0.43
28 d	5.44	5.33	5.28	5.19	5.22	0.20	0.91		0.57	0.63
Pre-weaning	5.97	5.91	5.93	5.86	5.66	0.15	0.71	0.31	0.51	0.82
Post-weaning	5.08	5.12	4.94	4.96	5.02	0.09	0.33	0.57	0.64	0.46
Overall	5.46	5.46	5.36	5.34	5.29	0.08	0.62	0.39	0.71	0.82
SUN, mmol/L
0 d	4.54	4.29	4.32	4.30	4.42	0.51	1.00		0.74	0.83
7 d	4.18	4.75	4.41	5.31	5.47	0.79	0.71		0.91	0.31
14 d	2.43	2.69	2.73	2.58	2.82	0.33	0.93		0.74	0.70
16 d	3.31	5.47	5.35	4.38	5.09	0.44	<0.01		0.04	0.05
18 d	8.50	9.67	10.54	12.02	11.51	0.58	<0.01		0.02	0.04
21 d	12.56	12.71	11.99	13.00	12.94	0.79	0.91		0.68	0.45
28 d	8.31	8.85	9.81	10.37	11.18	0.64	0.02		0.31	0.23
Pre-weaning	3.72	3.91	3.82	4.06	4.24	0.53	0.42	0.99	0.26	0.62
Post-weaning	8.17	9.18	9.42	9.94	10.26	0.62	<0.01	0.58	0.02	0.13
Overall	6.26	6.92	7.02	7.42	7.68	0.33	0.04	0.44	0.04	0.14
INS, mIU/L
0 d	19.49	22.34	19.86	20.58	21.30	1.98	0.84		1.00	0.30
7 d	15.79	18.29	19.32	17.49	18.47	3.45	0.96		0.59	0.86
14 d	14.58	17.51	20.71	15.01	17.69	2.68	0.54		0.28	0.78
16 d	8.73	8.93	10.01	6.50	7.85	1.66	0.65		0.81	0.40
18 d	12.73	18.13	17.08	10.92	13.75	2.11	0.13		0.38	0.87
21 d	14.18	15.56	15.21	13.58	13.98	1.53	0.88		0.73	0.99
28 d	4.76	6.01	5.09	5.54	6.27	0.94	0.77		0.98	0.26
Pre-weaning	16.62	19.38	19.96	17.69	19.15	1.92	0.04	0.72	0.03	0.17
Post-weaning	10.10	12.16	11.85	9.14	10.46	1.73	0.74	0.55	0.48	0.53
Overall	12.89	15.25	15.33	12.80	14.19	0.99	0.15	0.81	0.23	0.19

Glu, glucose; SUN, serum urea nitrogen; INS, insulin; T, treatment; D, day.