Carcass nitrogen as a predictor of lysine requirement in the adult female rat

Adult female Sprague-Dawley rats, age 10 months, were used to estimate the minimum dietary lysine requirement for tissue maintenance. Ten animals were assigned to one of eight treatment groups by weight. The dietary lysine levels ranged from 0.06 to 0.36 % of diet and the feeding period lasted 56 da...

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Main Author: Boyko, Jeffrey M.
Other Authors: Human Nutrition and Foods
Format: Others
Language:en_US
Published: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University 2019
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/91163