Effects of Sheep Bone Peptide-Chelated Calcium on Calcium Absorption and Bone Deposition in Rats Fed a Low-Calcium Diet

Table 1

Rat body weight, body length, rate of body weight gain, and rate of body length growth.

Groups	Rat final body weight (g)	Weight growth rate (%)	Rat final body length (cm)	Growth rate of body length (%)
Control (Z)	319.93 ± 9.85	143.56 ± 9.02^a	17.67 ± 3.21	73.53 ± 1.01
Low calcium (D)	302.57 ± 14.72	140.02 ± 5.11^b	16.99 ± 0.78	72.66 ± 2.05
CaCl2 (C)	328.68 ± 5.66	152.77 ± 6.80^a	17.77 ± 1.22	73.69 ± 0.89
SBP-Ca (T)	338.63 ± 11.38	156.48 ± 3.03^a	18.02 ± 0.32	73.81 ± 2.12

Z: rats fed with AIN-93 diet; D: rats fed with a low calcium AIN-93 diet; C: rats fed with a low calcium AIN-93 diet and CaCl₂; T: rats fed with a low calcium AIN-93 diet and SBP-Ca. The values in columns with different superscript letters are significantly different ().