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• Title: Effects of Dietary Glycine Betaine on Growth and Pork Quality of Finishing Pigs (Report)
• Author : Asian - Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
• Release Date : January 01, 2009
• Genre: Industries & Professions,Books,Business & Personal Finance,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 289 KB

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INTRODUCTION Betaine (glycine betaine, trimethylglycine) is a naturally occurring, nontoxic amino acid derivative that is commonly found in a large number of plant and animal species (Saarinen et al., 2001). Betaine plays an important function in amino acid and lipid metabolism and antibody production in practical animal production (Verreschi et al., 2000; Kim et al., 2003; Zulkifli et al., 2004). Much of the research with betaine in animals has evaluated effects on growth and carcass traits, and usually different levels of betaine have been fed. Matthews et al. (2001) and Lawrence et al. (2002) reported that addition of betaine to the diet of finishing pigs may result in improved leanness and carcass quality. Betaine has also been suggested for swine for reduction of carcass backfat and for increasing lean mass, as well as for improving feed efficiency (Campell et al., 1995; Cromwell et al., 1999).

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