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Effect of dietary tryptophan on muscle, liver and whole-body protein synthesis in weaned piglets: relationship to plasma insulin

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 March 2007

N. O. Cortamira ,
B. Seve ,
Y. Lebreton  and
P. Ganier
N. O. Cortamira
Affiliation:
INRA Station de Recherches Porcines, Saint-Gilles, 35590 L'Hermitage, France
B. Seve
Affiliation:
INRA Station de Recherches Porcines, Saint-Gilles, 35590 L'Hermitage, France
Y. Lebreton
Affiliation:
INRA Station de Recherches Porcines, Saint-Gilles, 35590 L'Hermitage, France
P. Ganier
Affiliation:
INRA Station de Recherches Porcines, Saint-Gilles, 35590 L'Hermitage, France
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Two experiments were carried out with piglets, 3–5 kg live weight, to evaluate the effects of feeding a tryptophan (TRP)-deficient diet for 2 weeks on protein synthesis rates measured in vivo 2 h after a meal. In the first experiment on twenty piglets fed on 250 g protein/kg diets, TRP deficiency (0.77 g/16 g nitrogen) as compared with adequacy (1.17 g/16 g N) significantly decreased feed intake, growth performance and fractional protein synthesis rates (FSR), without variation of RNA in longissimus dorsi (LD) and with parallel increases in RNA in semitendinosus (ST) muscle and liver. In the second experiment thirty-two piglets were tube-fed deficient and adequate diets at the two feeding levels (LF) previously achieved. Both TRP and LF significantly increased growth performance and FSR, but not RNA, in LD and ST muscle, with a trend to a synergy between the two factors (TRP x LF interaction). In another muscle, trapezius (TR), the same interaction was only apparent in RNA content. Among the three muscles it was in LD that FSR was the most responsive to dietary TRP (significant muscle x TRP interaction). In the liver the TRP x LF interaction on FSR and not RNA was the major significant effect, indicating that higher TRP and higher LF were both required to get the maximum protein synthesis rate. At 30 min after a meal the same significant interaction effect was shown on plasma glucose, whilst the higher LF increased plasma insulin with both diets. After a further 30 min the appearance of a similar significant effect of the TRP x LF interaction on plasma insulin resulted from its abatement when the deficient diet had been fed at high LF. These results suggest that dietary TRP deficiency decreased muscle and liver protein synthesis rates in relation to a decrease in the post-prandial release of insulin following a decreased rate of nutrient absorption.

Keywords

TryptophanProtein synthesisInsulinPig
Type
Nitrogen Metabolism
Information
British Journal of Nutrition , Volume 66 , Issue 3 , November 1991 , pp. 423 - 435
Copyright
Copyright © The Nutrition Society 1991

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