Productive and physiological implications of top-dress addition of branched-chain amino acids and arginine on lactating sows and offspring

Luise, Diana; Correa, Federico; Stefanelli, Claudio; Simongiovanni, Aude; Chalvon-Demersay, Tristan; Zini, Maddalena; Fusco, Luciano; Bosi, Paolo; Trevisi, Paolo

doi:10.1186/s40104-022-00819-8

Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology

Table 6 The effect of BCAA and Arg supplementation on the sow lactating diet regarding the haematological blood parameters, glucose urea and immunoglobulins concentration of their pigets

From: Productive and physiological implications of top-dress addition of branched-chain amino acids and arginine on lactating sows and offspring

Item^a	Piglets (n)	Diet^b				SEM	P-value
Item^a	Piglets (n)	CO	Arg	BCAA	Arg + BCAA	SEM	BCAA	Arg	BCAA × Arg
Day 10
RBC, 10⁶/µL	62	5.43	5.39	5.21	5.24	0.18	0.212	0.982	0.849
HGB, g/dL	62	11.89	11.71	11.51	11.41	0.29	0.127	0.561	0.868
HCT, %	62	35.79	35.11	34.34	34.04	1.15	0.157	0.601	0.839
MCV, fL	62	66.38	65.16	66.06	64.97	1.31	0.802	0.293	0.954
MCH, pg	62	22.11	21.73	22.19	21.84	0.54	0.821	0.425	0.967
MCHC, g/dL	62	33.26	33.35	33.61	33.66	0.46	0.366	0.849	0.958
PLT, 10³/μL	62	847.3	688.2	760.2	798.1	96.2	0.876	0.435	0.206
WBC, 10³/µL	62	5.81	4.87	4.94	4.98	0.63	0.437	0.397	0.342
NEUTRO, %	62	49.12	56.5	53.02	48.48	4.81	0.571	0.713	0.130
LYMPHO, %	62	39.98	31.84	36.12	39.85	5.41	0.608	0.606	0.173
MONO, %	62	7.31	9.62	8.12	9.06	1.57	0.920	0.198	0.584
EOSI, %	62	1.00	0.86	1.59	1.54	0.52	0.126	0.833	0.909
BASO, %	62	0.4	0.65	0.63	0.5	0.26	0.850	0.771	0.357
Glucose, mmol/L	55	7.06	6.87	7.13	7.1	0.45	0.659	0.768	0.820
Urea, mmol/L	55	1.84	2.17	2.11	2.46	0.26	0.196	0.154	0.980
IgA, mg/mL^c	49	0.59	1.04	0.62	0.3	0.25	0.095	0.760	0.084
IgG, mg/mL	49	7.28	6.46	5.07	4.87	2.40	0.300	0.793	0.868
IgM, mg/mL	50	0.25	0.32	0.25	0.31	0.06	0.986	0.197	0.948
Day 27
RBC, 10⁶/µL	60	6.39	6.61	6.51	6.6	0.14	0.688	0.302	0.65
HGB, g/dL	60	11.48	12.11	12.03	12.25	0.25	0.179	0.121	0.423
HCT, %	60	34.64	35.2	35.45	36.37	0.85	0.239	0.404	0.827
MCV, fL	60	54.12	53.42	54.2	55.26	0.78	0.338	0.868	0.391
MCH, pg	60	17.93	18.38	18.39	18.6	0.35	0.314	0.357	0.723
MCHC, g/dL	60	33.18	34.35	33.9	33.66	0.43	0.968	0.302	0.108
PLT, 10³/μL	60	610.19	771.74	825.47	811.74	74.13	0.085	0.340	0.238
WBC, 10³/µL	60	10.3	9.69	9.48	8.32	1.22	0.358	0.488	0.823
NEUTRO, %	60	34.58	42.33	42.11	39.36	3.56	0.504	0.498	0.137
LYMPHO, %^d	60	56.12	36.94	48.8	52.07	4.43	0.359	0.086	0.012
MONO, %	60	5.9	10.44	4.91	7.77	1.49	0.213	0.025	0.572
EOSI, %	60	1.59	2.19	1.7	2.67	0.54	0.565	0.160	0.730
BASO, %	60	0.57	1.27	0.87	0.74	0.29	0.674	0.346	0.162
Glucose, mmol/L	63	8.21	7.49	7.56	6.83	0.47	0.155	0.136	0.985
Urea, mmol/L	63	1.62	1.66	1.87	1.95	0.26	0.310	0.831	0.931
IgA, mg/mL	55	0.28	0.4	0.35	0.5	0.07	0.229	0.095	0.851
IgG, mg/mL	55	5.13	5.11	6.11	5.49	0.56	0.257	0.652	0.632
IgM, mg/mL	55	0.51	0.56	0.61	0.52	0.07	0.673	0.741	0.357

^aRBC: red blood cell count; HGB: haemoglobin; HCT: haematocrit; MCV: mean corpuscular volume; MCH: mean corpuscular haemoglobin; MCHC: mean corpuscular haemoglobin concentration; PLT: platelet count; WBC: white blood cell count; NEUTRO: neutrophil; LYMPHO: lymphocyte; MONO: monocyte; EOSI: eosinophil; BASO: basophil
^bDiet: CO = group fed a standard lactating sows’ diet; Arg = group was fed the standard lactating sows’ diet plus 22.5 g/d/sow of L-Arg; BCAA = group was fed the standard lactating sows’ diet plus L-Val, L-Ile and L-Leu at 9, 4.5 and 9 g/d/sow; BCAA + Arg = group was fed the standard lactating sows’ diet plus L-Val, L-Ile, L-Leu and L-Arg at 9, 4.5, 9 and 22.5 g/d/sow
^cIgA, mg/mL, d 10: BCAA and Arg groups vs. BCAA + Arg group, P = 0.055
^dLYMPHO, % Orthogonal contrast: CO vs. BCAA, Arg and BCAA + Arg groups, P = 0.0450; BCAA and Arg groups vs. BCAA + Arg group, P = 0.096; BCAA vs. Arg group, P = 0.060

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