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Functional Amino Acids Enhance Growth and Health of Pregnant and Lactating Sows, and Neonatal Piglets: a Review

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  • College of Animal Science and Technology, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, China

Received date: 2011-05-17

  Online published: 2011-11-21

Abstract

The growth and health of fetus and neonate are directly influenced by nutritional and physiological status of sows. The sows are often under catabolic conditions and provide an inadequate supply of dietary protein for fetal and mammary gland growths due to restricting feeding program during pregnancy and low voluntary feed intake during lactation. Functional amino acids (arginine, branched-chain amino acids, glutamate, tryptophan and proline) can enhance conception rates, embryogenesis, blood flow, antioxidant activity, appetite, translation initiation for protein synthesis, immune cells proliferation and intestinal development. Dietary supplementation with functional amino acids holds great promise for optimizing nutrition, health and production performance of sows and piglets. Functional amino acids are reviewed in this paper, focusing on improving the growth and health of pregnant and lactating sows and neonatal piglets by modulating key metabolic pathways

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TANG Zhiru, SONG Daijun, DONG Guozhong, SUN Zhihong, LI Zhouquan . Functional Amino Acids Enhance Growth and Health of Pregnant and Lactating Sows, and Neonatal Piglets: a Review[J]. Chinese Journal of Animal Nutrition, 2011 , 23(11) : 1898 -1905 . DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1006-267x.2011.11.008

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