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Table 4 The effect of dietary taurine on the growth performance and carcass lean percentage of the weaned pigs with diquat-induced oxidative stress*

From: Protective effects of taurine against muscle damage induced by diquat in 35 days weaned piglets

Item

Group

P-value

CON

DIQ

TAU

PD

PT

0.15%

0.30%

0.60%

Initial weight, kg

9.17

9.30

9.17

9.09

9.08

0.73

0.97

Final weight, kg

22.72A

17.98B

19.55

18.69

19.72

<0.01

0.77

ADFI, kg/d

0.78

0.77

0.77

0.72

0.68

0.90

0.64

ADG, kg/d

0.50A

0.32B

0.38

0.36

0.39

<0.01

0.55

F/G

1.56B

2.39Aa

2.08a

2.07a

1.75b

0.01

0.04

Lean percentage, %

46.73A

41.15Bc

43.50b

42.84bc

45.64a

<0.01

<0.01

  1. *Results are expressed as mean ± SEM. Values in rows with different capital letters are considered as significantly different [CON] vs. [DIQ], Values in rows with different lowercase are considered as significantly different [DIQ] vs. [LT, MT, HT]. PD: [CON] vs. [DIQ]; PT: [DIQ] vs. [LT, MT, HT]. ADFI Average daily feed intake, ADG Average daily gain, F/G The ratio of gain to feed intake
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Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology

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