Acute and persistent oral glutamine supplementation and its impact on low and normal birthweight pre-weaning piglets
Glutamine supplementation may enhance pre-weaning piglet performance.
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Glutamine, glutamate and aspartate supplementation and its impact on intestinal barrier integrity and amino acid pool of the small intestine in piglets with normal or low energy diet
Dietary supplementation of glutamine, glutamate, and aspartate improves intestinal barrier functions in weaned piglets.
Low-protein diets supplemented with sodium dichloroacetate and glucose: the effect on growth performance, carcass traits, and meat quality of growing-finishing pigs
Low-protein diets supplemented with sodium dichloroacetate and glucose may improve muscle protein deposition in growing-finishing pigs.
The effects of genotype and dietary lysine deficiency in carcass and muscle amino acid composition of pigs growing from 10 to 25 kg body weight
Dietary lysine deficiency in growing pigs and their interaction with the genotype may affect carcass and muscle amino acid composition.
The effects of glycine supplementation on mucosal immunity and the intestinal microbial composition in weaned piglets
Glycine supplementation improves the intestinal immunological barrier function and the microbial composition in weanling piglets.
Branched-chain amino acids and arginine dietary supplementation and its implications in lactating sows and offspring
Exceeding nutritional requirements of branched-chain amino acids and arginine may improve sow and piglet performance as well as immune status by changes in colostrum and milk.
Evaluation of water- and feed-based arginine effect on intestinal integrity in weanling pigs
Arginine supplementation in weanling pigs may improve growth performance and intestinal morphology independently of the supplementation method (feed or water).
GABA reduces hepatic inflammation in growing-finishing pigs from high parity sows
Gama-aminobutyric acid supplementation reduces liver inflammation improving the feed conversion ratio of growing-finishing pigs.
The effect of dietary tryptophan levels on growth performance and intestinal microbial ecology in weaned piglets
Tryptophan as a strategy to improve growth performance, intestinal mucosal barrier integrity, and intestinal microbial ecology in weaned piglets.
The effect of supplementing l-Arginine, l-Glutamine, and a combination of both in the diet of multiparous sows
L-Arginine and L-Glutamine supplementation as a dietary strategy to improve performance in multiparous lactating sows.
Evaluating partial substitution of corn with wheat or barley on the growth performance, blood antioxidant capacity, intestinal health, and fecal microbial composition of growing pigs
Wheat and barley partially replacing corn shows health and intestinal microbial benefits in growing pigs.
Dietary supplementation with lysine (protein) stimulates mammary development in late pregnant gilts
Providing dietary lysine above current National Research Council recommendations in late gestation increases mammary development in gilts.
Growth response to the combination of digestible threonine to lysine ratio in corn-soybean meal diets with and without distillers dried grains with solubles in growing-finishing pig’s diet
High digestible threonine to lysine ratio in high fiber diets for growing-finishing pigs does not improve performance.
Diet and microbiota-gut-brain axis in relation to tail biting in pigs
While tail biting is multifactorial, an imbalance in the microbiota-gut-brain axis, modulated via the diet, should be considered as a pathway for the development of tail biting.
Weaned piglet performance and nutrient digestion in response to dietary L-glutamine and glutamic acid combination, and whey powder
Functional amino acids supplementation directly improves gut health and integrity in weanling pigs.
Sow performance in response to feeding natural betaine during lactation and postweaning
Natural betaine fed to sows during lactation and postweaning show benefits on performance only during summer months.