Excess dietary leucine in diets for growing pigs reduces growth performance, biological value of protein, protein retention, and serotonin synthesis 1

An experiment was conducted to test the hypothesis that excess dietary Leu affects metabolism of branched-chain amino acids (BCAA) in growing pigs. Forty barrows (initial body weight [BW]: 30.0 ± 2.7 kg) were housed individually in metabolism crates and allotted to 5 dietary treatments (8 replicates...

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Veröffentlicht in:Journal of animal science 2019-10, Vol.97 (10), p.4282-4292
Hauptverfasser: Kwon, Woong B, Touchette, Kevin J, Simongiovanni, Aude, Syriopoulos, Kostas, Wessels, Anna, Stein, Hans H
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