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. 2022 Sep 13;14(18):3769. doi: 10.3390/nu14183769

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Energy consumption and utilization. (A) Total energy intake (kcal\rat). (B) 1st week total energy intake (kcal/rat). (C) 1st week total weight gain (g\rat). (D) Protein Efficiency Ratio (PER). Relative weight gain (g) per protein intake (g). PER examined under standardized conditions of weaning rats that were fed 10% protein in the diet for a test period of 4 weeks. Corrected PER values are standardized for PD-Cas = 2.5. Values are expressed as mean ± SD of n = 8 rats/group, different superscript letters are significantly different (p < 0.05) by one-way ANOVA followed by Tukey’s test.