Functional amino acids and fatty acids for enhancing production performance of sows and piglets
By S. Kim, R. D. Mateo, Yulong Yin, Guoyao Wu. 2006
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The growth and health of the fetus and neonate are directly influenced by the nutritional and physiological status of sows. Sows are often under catabolic conditions due to restrict feeding program during pregnancy and low voluntary feed intake during lactation. The current restrict feeding program, which aims at controlling energy intake during gestation, results in an inadequate supply of dietary protein for fetal and mammary gland growth. Low voluntary feed intake during lactation also causes massive maternal tissue mobilization. Provision of amino acids and fatty acids with specific functions may enhance the performance of pregnant and lactating sows by modulating key metabolic pathways. These nutrients include arginine, branched-chain amino acids, glutamine, tryptophan, proline, conjugated linoleic acids, docosahexaenoic acid, and eicosapentaenoic acid, which can enhance conception rates, embryogenesis, blood flow, antioxidant activity, appetite, translation initiation for protein synthesis, immune cell proliferation, and intestinal development. The outcome is to improve sow reproductive performance as well as fetal and neonatal growth and health. Dietary supplementation with functional amino acids and fatty acids holds great promise in optimizing nutrition, health, and production performance of sows and piglets. (Supported by funds from Texas Tech, USDA, NLRI-RDA-Korea, and China NSF).
Subfields: Cell Biology, Nutrition and Dietetics
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- Important roles for the arginine family of amino acids in swine nutrition and production (2007, unknown): “Weaning is characterized by a marked change in arginine and proline nutrition in swine (Ball et al., 1986; Chung and Baker, 1993; Kim et al., 2007).”
- Amino acids and immune function (2007, background): “…include one-carbon unit metabolism; the hepatic and renal synthesis of glucose, particularly in ruminants; and the synthesis of glycine, ceramide and phosphatidylserine as structural components and signalling molecules of cells, including T and B lymphocytes (Jones et al. 1999; Kim et al. 2007).”
- Effects of different levels of dietary crude protein and threonine on performance, humoral immune responses and intestinal morphology of broiler chicks (2014, background): “It was reported that Thr is a major component of plasma γ-globulins (Kim et al., 2007) and Thr requirements for antibody production in broilers are higher than those for growth performance (Bhargava et al., 1971; Jahanian, 2010a,b).”