Standardized ileal digestibility of amino acids in soybean meal fed to non-pregnant and pregnant sows

Table 8 Basal ileal endogenous losses (mg/kg dry matter intake, DMI) of crude protein (CP) and amino acid (AA) in sows^a

Item	Non-pregnant sows	Mid-gestating sows	Late-gestating sows	SEM	P-value
CP, g/kg DMI	9.82	10.14	10.57	0.59	0.89
Indispensable AA
Arg	298.33	255.00	368.00	24.13	0.25
His	128.75	121.67	153.33	5.10	0.06
Ile	317.50^b	215.00^c	275.00^bc	11.31	< 0.01
Leu	465.00	440.00	505.00	18.41	0.45
Lys	293.75	295.00	286.00	11.71c	0.96
Met	80.00^c	108.33^b	124.00^b	4.20	< 0.01
Phe	213.75	242.00	270.00	12.48	0.23
Thr	367.50	408.00	396.67	16.54	0.62
Trp	106.25^c	123.33^bc	150.00^b	5.88	0.03
Val	340.00	368.33	358.33	15.97	0.78
Dispensable AA
Ala	340.00^c	468.00^b	456.00^b	19.65	0.04
Asp	575.00	658.00	628.00	25.55	0.44
Cys	171.25	132.50	135.00	8.77	0.17
Glu	692.50	810.00	712.00	34.31	0.45
Gly	674.29	741.67	906.00	69.33	0.46
Pro	1920.00	1800.00	2556.00	314.03	0.65
Ser	358.75	436.00	392.00	19.21	0.32
Tyr	182.86^b	30.00^c	211.67^b	7.69	< 0.01

^aEach mean represents eight and six observations for non-pregnant and pregnant sows, respectively
^b,cDifferent superscripts indicate that means in the same row differ (P < 0.05)

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