The effects of dietary crystalline threonine or microencapsulated threonine on growth performance, and nutrient digestion and absorption of juvenile Jian carp (Cyprinus carpio var. Jian) were investigated in the 60-day experiment. A total of 300 juvenile Jian carp with initial weight of (13.61±002) g were randomly allocated to 2 groups with 3 replicates per group and 50 fish per replicate, and fed diets supplemented with crystalline threonine and microencapsulated threonine, respectively. The available threonine content in the diet was 1.25%. The results showed as follows: the specific growth rate (SGR), feed intake (FI), productive protein value (PPV) and lipid production value (LPV) of microencapsulated threonine group were significantly higher than those of crystalline threonine group (P<0.05). In addition, microencapsulated threonine group had significantly higher hepatopancreas weight, intestinal weight and length, protein content, relative gut length (RGL), hepatosomatic indices (HSI) and intestosomatic indices (ISI) than crystalline threonine group (P<0.05). Furthermore, intestinal folds height and alkaline phosphatase (AKP) activity in all intestine segments, and the activities of Na+,K+-ATPase and γ-glutamyl transpeptidase (γ-GT) in midgut and hindgut of microencapsulated threonine group were significantly higher than those of crystalline threonine group (P<0.05). Besides, compared with the microencapsulated threonine group, the activities of glutamate-oxaloacetate transaminase (GOT) and glutamate-pyruvate transaminase (GPT) in hepatopancreas and muscle, and plasma ammonia concentration in crystalline threonine group were increased, and the serum GOT activity was decreased (P<0.05). The activities of hepatopancreas trypsin and intestine trypsin and lipase of microencapsulated threonine group were significantly higher than those of crystalline threonine group (P<0.05). Leaching trials suggested that leaching rates were so rapid for L-threonine (crystalline form) that all of them were lost via leaching after immersion for 15 min. By contrast, leaching of microencapsulated threonine (coated treatment) was lower, hence all of them were lost via leaching after immersion for 120 min. This results indicate that the microencapsulated threonine is utilized more effectively than crystalline threonine by juvenile Jian carp, and it can increase the digestion and absorption of nutrients in juvenile Jian carp. [Chinese Journal of Animal Nutrition, 2011, 23(5):771 -780]
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