Journal
ANIMAL SCIENCE JOURNAL
Volume 83, Issue 2, Pages 148-155Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1740-0929.2011.00941.x
Keywords
apparent nutrient digestibility; cationic amino acid transporter; finishing pig; lysine
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) [30671519]
- NSFC
- Guangdong Province Government [U0731004, U0931004]
- Major Special Project of Guangdong Province, China [2009A080303009]
- National Major Science Research Program of China [2009CB941601]
- National 948 Project of China [2011-G35]
- Special Fund for Agro-scientific Research in the Public Interest [201003011]
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One hundred and twenty pigs were used to evaluate the effects of different dietary lysine levels on the growth performance, apparent nutrient digestibility, and abundance of cationic amino acid transporter messenger RNA (mRNA) in the small intestine of finishing pigs. Pigs received a low lysine diet (LL, 0.60% lysine), moderate lysine diet (ML, 0.80% lysine) or a high lysine diet (HL, 1.00% lysine) for 28 days. A digestion test was carried out during the third week. Although the apparent nutrient digestibility in pigs fed experimental diets were different (P < 0.05) and the highest when pigs were fed ML diet, diets did not change the growth performance. In the duodenum, mRNA abundance of PepT-1, as detected by real-time RT-PCR, was reduced in the LL diet (P < 0.05). A greater abundance of b0,+AT and PepT-1 mRNA was associated with the ML diet (P < 0.05) in the jejunum and ileum, respectively. In the ileum, the HL diet had a lower abundance of CAT-1 mRNA compared with other diets. These results showed that the finishing pigs would gain better nutrient digestibility when the dietary lysine content was 0.80%, and dietary lysine levels influenced the expression of cationic amino acid transporter mRNA in the small intestine of finishing pigs.
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