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Table 4 Effects of dietary threonine levels on IL, RGL, IW, ISI, IPC, HW, HSI, and HPC of sub-adult grass carp

From: Growth, digestive and absorptive capacity and antioxidant status in intestine and hepatopancreas of sub-adult grass carp Ctenopharyngodonidella fed graded levels of dietary threonine

Item

Dietary Thr levels, g/kg diet

 

3.3

5.9

8.4

10.9

13.1

15.8

ILf, cm /fish

58.1 ± 5.9a

58.5 ± 2.9a

61.8 ± 3.2ab

63.9 ± 3.5b

61.7 ± 3.2ab

59.6 ± 5.0a

RGLf, %

149.0 ± 18.1a

144.4 ± 7.6a

144.6 ± 8.1a

145.5 ± 7.7a

145.3 ± 7.7a

147.3 ± 10.8a

IWf, g /fish

6.3 ± 0.8a

9.8 ± 1.6bc

10.9 ± 1.6cd

14.0 ± 2.7e

11.8 ± 1.5d

9.2 ± 1.0 b

ISIf, %

1.04 ± 0.13a

1.24 ± 0.21b

1.16 ± 0.12b

1.26 ± 0.18b

1.25 ± 0.15b

1.16 ± 0.12b

IPCg, %

8.33 ± 0.63 a

9.57 ± 1.01bc

10.21 ± 1.02c

8.90 ± 0.73ab

8.71 ± 0.89ab

8.49 ± 0.90ab

HWf, g /fish

12.1 ± 2.1a

16.9 ± 2.5b

23.7 ± 5.7c

26.3 ± 7.1c

23.4 ± 3.6c

16.5 ± 3.3b

HSIf, %

1.98 ± 0.27a

2.14 ± 0.35ab

2.51 ± 0.54c

2.37 ± 0.48bc

2.49 ± 0.39c

2.08 ± 0.36ab

HPCg, %

9.46 ± 0.50a

9.12 ± 0.68a

11.61 ± 0.79c

10.60 ± 0.65b

11.15 ± 0.42bc

10.98 ± 0.97bc

  1. IL: Intestinal length; RGL: Relative gut length; IW: Intestinal weight; ISI: Intestosomatic index; IPC: Intestinal protein content; HW: Hepatopancreatic weight; HSI: Hepatosomatic index; HPC: Hepatopancreatic protein content
  2. a,b,c,d,eMeans in the same row without a letter in common are significantly different (P< 0.05)
  3. fValues are mean ± SD (n = 15)
  4. gValues are mean ± SD (n = 6)