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Table 5 Effect of dietary 5-HTP supplementation on blood hormones and biochemical parameters of weaned piglets

From: Dietary 5-hydroxytryptophan supplementation improves growth performance and intestinal health of weaned piglets

Items

Treatments

SEM

P value

CON

250 mg/kg

500 mg/kg

Serum

5-HT (pg/mL)

370.45b

503.89a

572.56a

23.441

< 0.001

Growth hormone (ng/mL)

3.37b

4.52a

3.04c

0.157

< 0.001

Insulin-like growth factor-I (ng/mL)

75.20c

151.10a

117.74b

7.579

< 0.001

Plasma

Total protein (g/L)

47.45b

53.33a

48.82b

0.867

0.006

Albumin (g/L)

29.53b

35.17a

31.6b

0.688

<0.001

Lactate dehydrogenase (U/L)

623.33

630.50

540.17

20.867

0.145

Glucose (mmol/L)

6.30

6.83

6.06

0.271

0.524

Calcium (mmol/L)

2.61

2.76

2.62

0.034

0.127

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