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.