Betaine addition to the diet alleviates intestinal injury in growing rabbits during the summer heat through the AAT/mTOR pathway

Table 1 Composition and nutrient levels of diets (dry matter basis, %)

Ingredients	Inclusion, %	Nutrient	Level²
Alfalfa meal	20.00	DE, MJ/kg	10.20 (10.39)
Corn	13.10	CP	16.10 (15.90)
Soybean meal	10.90	CF	16.00 (16.23)
Corn germ meal	10.00	NDF	33.20 (44.50)
Wheat bran	20.00	ADF	18.51 (21.68)
Soybean hull	12.25	ADL	3.66 (4.15)
Rice bran	4.42	Ca	0.60
Rice hull power	5.82	TP	0.52
Soybean oil	1.31	SAA	0.52
CaCO₃	0.55	AFD Lys	0.52
NaCl	0.50	AFD Met	0.21
L-Lys HCl (≥ 98%)	0.03	AFD Thr	0.43
L-Met (≥ 99%)	0.03
L-Thr (≥ 98.5%)	0.09
Premix¹	1.00
Total	100.00

¹Premix provided the following per kg of the diet: vitamin premix 250 mg (include 6,000 IU of VA, 1,200 IU of VD₃, 50 IU of VE, 2.4 mg of VK₃, 12.5 μg of VB₁₂, 240 μg of biotin, 1.8 mg of pyridoxine, 3.6 mg of riboflavin, 35 mg of niacin, 12.5 mg of pantothenic acid), 35 mg Zn (ZnSO₄·H₂O), 30 mg Fe (FeSO₄·7H₂O), 8 mg Mn (MnSO₄·H₂O), 6 mg Cu (CuSO₄·5H₂O), 0.4 mg I (KI), 0.05 mg Se (Na₂SeO₃), 0.3 mg Co (CoCl₂·6H₂O), 100 mg Choline (choline chloride, 50%)
²Nutrient levels are measured values in parentheses, and the rest are calculated values

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