Dietary Supplementation of Leucine in Premating Diet Improves the Within-Litter Birth Weight Uniformity, Antioxidative Capability, and Immune Function of Primiparous SD Rats
Table 7
Effect of dietary leucine supplementation on the concentration of amino acids on day −1 and day 7 of pregnancy in SD rats.
Amino acid (ug/ml)
Control
Leucine
value
Day −1 of pregnancy
Cysteine
0.882
Phenylalanine
0.095
Alanine
0.027
Glycine
0.453
Glutamic acid
0.169
Glutamine
0.025
Methionine
0.217
Arginine
0.013
Lysine
0.353
Tyrosine
0.358
Leucine
0.017
Proline
0.810
Tryptophan
0.415
Serine
0.951
Threonine
0.981
Aspartic acid
≪0.001
Asparagine
0.728
Valine
0.427
Isoleucine
0.052
Histidine
0.118
Day 7 of pregnancy
Cysteine
0.827
Phenylalanine
0.861
Alanine
0.091
Glycine
0.891
Glutamic acid
0.485
Glutamine
0.174
Methionine
0.090
Arginine
0.358
Lysine
0.325
Tyrosine
0.549
Leucine
0.347
Proline
0.919
Tryptophan
0.086
Serine
0.374
Threonine
0.116
Aspartic acid
0.019
Asparagine
0.917
Valine
0.968
Isoleucine
0.858
Histidine
0.185
Value is the mean ± standard error of means of eight replicates; is means labeled with significant difference (); is means labeled with extreme difference ().
