Dietary L-arginine supplementation increases muscle gain and reduces body fat mass in growing-finishing pigs

Amino Acids

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 169-175

  Tan, Bie ^a,b   Yin, Yulong ^a   Liu, Zhiqiang ^a,b   Li, Xinguo ^c   Xu, Haijun ^a,b   Kong, Xiangfeng ^a   Huang, Ruilin ^a   Tang, Wenjie ^a,b   Shinzato, Izuru ^d   Smith, Stephen B ^e   Wu, Guoyao ^a,e  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c Hunan Institute of Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Medicine   (China)

^d AJINOMOTO CO INC   (Japan)

^e TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Arginine; Fat; Growth; Meat quality; Muscle

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; ARGININE; GLUCAGON; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY FAT; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; CARCASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; FAT CONTENT; FOOD INTAKE; LIPID STORAGE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLOW MUSCLE; SOYBEAN; TRIACYLGLYCEROL BLOOD LEVEL; WEIGHT GAIN;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ANIMALS; ARGININE; DIET; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; HORMONES; LIPIDS; MEAT; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; SWINE; WEIGHT GAIN;

GLYCINE MAX; MAMMALIA; SUIDAE; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 67349263590     PISSN: 09394451     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00726-008-0148-0     Document Type: Article

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