The Effect of Dietary Protein Level on the Lysine and Arginine Requirements of Growing Chickens

Poultry Science

Volumn 77, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 689-696

  Hurwitz, S ^a   Sklan, D ^b   Talpaz, H ^a   Plavnik, I ^a  

^a VOLCANI CENTER   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Amino acid requirements; Carcass fat; Feed efficiency; Growth; Pectoral muscle

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; LYSINE;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL FOOD; ARTICLE; CHICKEN; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MALE; NUTRITIONAL REQUIREMENT; PROTEIN INTAKE; WEIGHT GAIN;

ANIMAL NUTRITION PHYSIOLOGY; ANIMALS; ARGININE; CHICKENS; DIETARY PROTEINS; LYSINE; MALE; NUTRITIONAL REQUIREMENTS; WEIGHT GAIN;

EID: 0032065550     PISSN: 00325791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ps/77.5.689     Document Type: Article

References (31)

1. Almquist, H. J., 1952. Amino acid requirements of chickens and turkeys: A review. Poultry Sci. 31:969-981.
2. Bard, Y., 1974. Non-Linear Parameter Estimation. Academic Press, New York, NY.
3. Bartov, I., 1979. Nutritional factors affecting quantity and quality of carcass fat in chickens. Fed. Proc. 38:2627-2630.
4. Buttery, P. J., and K. N. Boorman, 1976. The energetic efficiency of amino acid metabolism. Pages 197-204 in: Protein Metabolism and Nutrition. D.J.A. Cole, ed. Butterworth, London, UK.
5. Boomgaardt, J., and D. H. Baker, 1973. The lysine requirement of growing chicks fed sesame meal-gelatin diets at three protein levels. Poultry Sci. 52:586-591.
6. Davis, A. T., and R. E. Austic, 1982. Threonine imbalance and the threonine requirement of the chicken. J. Nutr. 112: 2170-2176.
7. D'Mello, T.P.F., and D. Lewis, 1970. Amino acid interactions in chick nutrition. 3. Interdependence in amino acid requirements. Br. Poult. Sci. 11:367-385.
8. Fisher, H., P. Griminger, G. A. Leveille, and R. Shapiro, 1960. Quantitative aspects of lysine deficiency and amino acid imbalance. J. Nutr. 71:213-220.
9. Folch, J., M. Lees, and G.H.S. Stanley, 1957. Simple method for the isolation and purification of total lipids from animal tissues. J. Biol. Chem. 226:497-509.
10. Han, Y., and D. H. Baker, 1993a. Effect of sex, heat stress, body weight, and genetic strain on the dietary lysine requirement of broiler chicks. Poultry Sci. 72:701-708.
11. Han, Y., and D. H. Baker, 1993b. Effects of excess methionine or lysine for broilers fed a corn-soybean meal diet. Poultry Sci. 72:1070-1074.
12. Han, Y., and D. H. Baker, 1994. Digestible lysine requirement of male and female broiler chicks during the period three to six weeks posthatching. Poultry Sci. 73:1739-1745.
13. Harper, A. E., N. J. Benevenga, and R. M. Wohlheuter, 1970. Effect of ingestion of disproportionate amounts of amino acids. Physiol. Rev. 50:429-558.
14. Hurwitz, S., Y. Frisch, A. Bar, U. Eisner, I. Bengal, and M. Pines, 1983a. The amino acid requirements of growing turkeys. 1. Model construction and parameter estimation. Poultry Sci. 62:2208-2217.
15. Hurwitz, S., I. Plavnik, I. Bartov, and S. Bornstein, 1980. The amino acid requirements of chicks: experimental validation of model-calculated requirements. Poultry Sci. 59: 2470-2479.
16. Hurwitz, S., I. Plavnik, I. Bengal, H. Talpaz, and I. Bartov, 1983b. The amino acid requirements of growing turkeys. 2. Experimental validation of model-calculated requirements. Poultry Sci. 62:2387-2393.
17. Hurwitz, S., I. Plavnik, A. Shapiro, E. Wax, H. Talpaz, and A. Bar, 1995. Calcium metabolism and requirements of chickens are affected by growth. J. Nutr. 125:2679-2686.
18. Hurwitz, S., D. Sklan, and I. Bartov, 1978. New formal approaches to the determination of energy and amino acid requirements of chicks. Poultry Sci. 57:197-205.
19. Latshaw, J. D., 1993. Dietary lysine concentrations from deficient to excessive and effects on broiler chicks. Br. Poult. Sci. 34:951-958.
20. Mendonca, C. X., and L. S. Jensen, 1989. Influence of protein concentration on the sulfur-containing amino acid requirement of broiler chickens. Br. Poult. Sci. 30:889-898.
21. Mercer, L. P., S. J. Dodds, and D. L. Smith, 1987. New method for formulation of amino acid concentrations and ratios in diets of rats. J. Nutr. 117:1936-1944.
22. Morris, T. R., and S. Abebe, 1990. Effects of arginine and protein on chicks' responses to dietary lysine. Br. Poult. Sci. 31:261-266.
23. Morris, T. R., K. Al-Azzawi, R. M. Gous, and G. L. Simpson, 1987. Effects of protein concentration on responses to dietary lysine by chicks. Br. Poult. Sci. 28:185-196.
24. National Research Council, 1994. Nutrient Requirements of Poultry. 9th rev. ed. National Academic Press, Washington, DC.
25. Pindyck, R. S., and D. L. Rubenfield, 1981. Econometric Models and Econometric Forecasts. 2nd ed. McGraw Hill, New York, NY.
26. Powell, M.J.D., 1978. A fast algorithm for non-linearly constrained optimization calculation. Pages 144-157 in: Numerical Analysis Proceedings, Dundee, 1977, Lecture Notes in Mathematics. G. A. Watson, Springer Verlag, Berlin, Germany.
27. Robbins, K. R., D. H. Baker, and H. W. Norton, 1977. Histidine status in the chick as measured by growth rate, plasma free histidine, and breast muscle carnosine. J. Nutr. 107: 2055-2061.
28. Sklan, D., and O. Halevy, 1984. Vitamin A metabolism in the chick liver: some properties of the cytosolic lipid-protein aggregate. Br. J. Nutr. 52:107-114.
29. Snedecor, G. W., and W. G. Cochran, 1968. Statistical Methods, 6th ed. Iowa State University Press, Ames, IA.
30. Talpaz, H., G. D. Da Roza, and A. B. Hearn, 1987. Parameter estimation and calibration of simulation models as non-linear optimization problems. Agric. Syst. 23:107-116.
31. White, K. J., and G. Horsman, 1986. SHAZAM The Econometric Computer Program. K. J. White, Vancouver, BC, Canada.