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Glycine Supplementation Enhances the Growth of Sow-Reared Piglets with Intrauterine Growth Restriction

Hu S, Long DW, Bazer FW, Burghardt RC, Johnson GA, Wu G 2025 Animals : an open access journal from MDPI

Abstract

Glycine has the greatest rate of deposition in whole-body proteins among all amino acids in neonates, but its provision from sow's milk meets only 20% of the requirement of suckling piglets. The results of our recent studies indicate that piglets with intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR) have a reduced ability to…

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Piglet

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GrowthAmino acidsMilkProtein synthesisNutritionGlycine

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