期刊论文

Hou, Yongqing

英文

Amino Acids

0939-4451

2015

47

7

1309-1318

10.1007/s00726-015-1966-5

This research was jointly supported by National Basic Research Program of China (No. 2012CB126305), National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 31372319, 31402084), the Hubei Provincial Key Project for Scientific and Technical Innovation (2014ABA022), Hubei Provincial Research and Development Program (No. 2010BB023), Natural Science Foundation of Hubei Province (No. 2013CFA097, 2013CFB325, 2012FFB04805, 2011CDA131), Scientific Research Program of Hubei Provincial Department of Education (D20141701), the Hubei Hundred Talent Program, Agriculture and Food Research Initiative Competitive Grants of (2014-67015-21770) of the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture, and Texas AgriLife Research (H-82000). All these funding agencies had no role in the design, analysis or writing of our published studies.

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Abstract There is growing interest in glutamate as a functional amino acid in nutrition and health. This study was conducted to determine whether glutamate precursor α-ketoglutarate (AKG) could alleviate lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-induced liver injury in young pigs. Twenty-four piglets were randomly assigned to the control, LPS, or LPS + AKG group. Piglets in the control and LPS groups were fed a basal diet, whereas piglets in the NAC group were fed the basal diet supplemented with 1 % AKG. On days 10, 12, 14, and 16 of the trial, piglets in the...