Journal
AQUACULTURE RESEARCH
Volume 49, Issue 2, Pages 748-756Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/are.13505
Keywords
all-plant protein diet; bullfrog; fish meal replacement; growth; guanidinoacetic acid; muscle energy metabolism
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [31602172]
- Science and Technology Leading Project of Fujian Province [2017N0021]
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Effects of guanidinoacetic acid (GAA) supplementation in all-plant protein diets were evaluated on growth, antioxidant capacity and muscle energy metabolism of Rana (Lithobates) catesbeiana. Six diets were prepared: a basal fish meal diet (FM), an all soybean meal diet (SM) and four GAA-supplemented diets by adding 0.2, 0.4, 0.6 and 0.8g GAA/kg to the SM diet (GAA2, GAA4, GAA6 and GAA8 diets). Triplicate groups of bullfrog (45 +/- 0.2g) were fed the diets to apparent satiation for 8weeks. Total substitution of FM with SM led to significantly (p<.05) reduced growth and feed utilization. Adding 0.4g GAA/kg to the SM diet significantly improved growth performance, and the values were comparable to those of FM group. SM and GAA2 groups showed drastically lower serum total antioxidant capacity than FM, GAA4 and GAA6 groups. Also, SM and GAA2 groups showed significantly lower catalase activity than FM and GAA8 groups. A remarkable increase in serum malondialdehyde concentration was detected in SM and GAA2 groups. FM and GAA6 groups exhibited significantly higher serum creatinine concentration than other groups. Muscle creatine kinase activity and glycogen content were significantly decreased in SM group and application of 0.4-0.6g GAA/kg significantly improved their values. GAA4 group showed significantly lower pyruvate kinase activity than FM and GAA6 groups. Also, GAA2 and GAA4 groups had significantly lower succinate dehydrogenase (SDH) activity than other treatments. These findings show that supplementing 0.4g/kg GAA to SM-based diets improves growth, antioxidant capacity and muscle energy metabolism.
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