Table 5. Effects of dietary L-arginine supplementation on relative organ weight (g/kg BW) of growing pigs fed a mold-contaminated diet1)
Item | Non-toxin (Arg1.2%) | Toxin with Arg | SEM | p-value |
1.2 | 1.3 | 1.4 |
Heart | 0.54 | 0.50 | 0.51 | 0.55 | 0.030 | 0.538 |
Liver | 2.46b | 2.65a | 2.54ab | 2.55ab | 0.030 | 0.006 |
Spleen | 0.21 | 0.18 | 0.19 | 0.20 | 0.020 | 0.778 |
Kidney | 0.48 | 0.53 | 0.50 | 0.52 | 0.040 | 0.808 |
Data represents means based on six replicates per treatment (n = 6).
Means with different superscripts within rows are significantly different at (p < 0.05).
BW, body weight; Arg, arginine.