Dietary alanyl-glutamine improves growth performance of weaned piglets through maintaining intestinal morphology and digestion–absorption function

Alanyl-glutamine (Ala-Gln), a highly soluble and stable glutamine dipeptide, is known to improve gut integrity and function. The aim of this study was to evaluate whether dietary Ala-Gln supplementation could improve growth performance, intestinal development and digestive-absorption function in wea...

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Main Authors: T.D. Zou, C.X. Deng, Z.R. Wang, Y.L. Ye, J.M. You
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2019-01-01
Series:Animal
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1751731119000223