The effect of dietary lysine levels on growth and metabolism of rainbow trout (Salmo gairdneri)

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  • MWM. J. Walton
    M. J. Walton
  • CCC. B. Cowey
    C. B. Cowey
  • JAJ. W. Adron
    J. W. Adron
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Abstract
1. Groups of rainbow trout (Salmo gairdneri; mean weight 5 g) were given diets containing 10, 12, 14, 17, 21, 24 and 26 g lysine/kg diet for 12 weeks.2. By analysis of the growth values the dietary requirement of lysine in this experiment was found to be 19 g/kg diet. A similar requirement value was obtained from a dose-response curve of expired14CO2(following an intraperitoneal injection of L-[U-14C]lysine) v. dietary lysine concentration.3. Liver concentrations of total lipid and carnitine and activities of lysine-α-ketoglutarate reductase (saccharopine dehydrogenase (NADP+, lysine-forming),EC1. 5. 1. 8 ) in the liver were not significantly different in fish from the different dietary treatments. Hepatosomatic index, however, was higher in those fish given low levels of dietary lysine.

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