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The effect of glucosinolate fraction concentrations
in
rapeseed meal on daily protein deposition in the
body and on internal organ weights of growing pigs
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The Kielanowski Institute of Animal Physiology and Nutrition,
Polish Academy of Sciences,
05-110 Jabłonna, Poland
Publication date: 2001-06-28
J. Anim. Feed Sci. 2001;10(Suppl. 2):197-201
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ABSTRACT
Thirty-five gilts weighing 25 kg were divided into five groups and until reaching 70 kg fed with
isoenergetic diets based on cereals and rapeseed meal differing in the content of glucosinolate fractions. Daily protein deposition in the body, weight of thyroid glands, liver, kidneys, and T3 and T4
hormone levels in the blood were measured as affected by the concentration of alkenyl- (alk-) and
indole- (ind-) glucosinolates (GL).
Daily protein deposition in the body decreased (by 8.5 %, statistically nonsignificant), but the
weight of internal organs increased (thyroid glands by 210%, P < 0.001; liver by 50%, P < 0.01, and
kidneys by 17%, P < 0.05) as the alk- and ind-GL concentration in the diets rose (from 0.52 to 2.10
and from 0.17 to 0.40 mmoles kg-1, respectively). The correlation coefficients (partial) indicated that
the concentration of ind- had a greater influence on weight of internal organs than alk-GL. Indoleand alkenyl-glucosinolates had a similar effect on the level of T3 and T4 hormones in the blood, but
did not influence protein deposition.