Dietary Supplementation with L-Arginine Partially Counteracts Serum Metabonome Induced by Weaning Stress in Piglets
Dietary Supplementation with L-Arginine Partially Counteracts Serum Metabonome Induced by Weaning Stress in Piglets
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DOI:
10.1021/pr200688u
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发表时间:
2011-11-01
影响因子:
4.4
通讯作者:
Wang, Yulan
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作者:
He, Qinghua;Tang, Huiru;Wang, Yulan
Arginine plays an important role in preventing intestinal dysfunction and metabolic disorders caused by early weaning stress. However, little is known about how arginine mitigates early weaning stress. This study was conducted to evaluate the effects of weaning stress and dietary arginine supplementation on the metabonome in the serum of piglets using H-1 NMR spectroscopy in conjunction with multivariate data analysis. Thirty castrated male piglets aged 21 d were evenly divided into three groups and fed in three different regimes: sow-fed (SF), weaned with L-alanine supplementation (ALA), and weaned with arginine supplementation (ARG). We found that early weaning stress led to a significantly reduced bodyweight gain (15.6%) and that supplementation with arginine can improve growth rates in piglets by 5.6% (P