A Deficiency or Excess of Dietary Threonine Reduces Protein Synthesis in Jejunum and Skeletal Muscle of Young Pigs1,2 From: The Journal of Nutrition | Date: June 1, 2007| Author: Wang, Xu; Qiao, Shiyan; Yin, Yulong; Yue, Longyao; Et al | Copyright American Institute of Nutrition Jun 2007. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

Abstract

Dietary threonine imbalance is known to reduce the growth of the small intestine, liver, and skeletal muscle in young animals, but the underlying mechanism is largely unknown. Using the pig model, this study was conducted to test the hypothesis that either a deficiency or an excess of dietary threonine impairs protein synthesis in these tissues. Young pigs (25 d of age) were fed diets containing 0.37, 0.74 (current NRC requirement) or 1.11% true ileal digestible threonine (TID...

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