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Table 1 Growth and adiposity as affected by diet and line

From: Molecular alterations induced by a high-fat high-fiber diet in porcine adipose tissues: variations according to the anatomical fat location

Diet

HF

LF

Statistics

Line

Low

High

Low

High

p-diet

p-line

Pigsa, n

12

12

12

12

  

 Initial age (d)

73

73

75

75

0.77

0.04

 Initial weight (kg)

25.7

26.6

26.5

27.1

0.62

0.54

 Final age (d)

132

131

134

133

0.49

0.12

 Final body weight (kg)

72.8

69.0

82.7

77.6

<0.001

0.008

 Feed intake (kg/d)

2.13

2.12

2.45

2.40

<0.001

0.45

 Gain to food ratio

0.38

0.34

0.39

0.36

0.13

<0.001

Adipose tissue mass (% body weight)

     

 Perirenal AT

0.59

0.54

0.83

0.83

<0.001

0.46

 Subcutaneous AT

3.90

4.10

5.90

5.70

<0.001

0.41

  1. aPigs were fed a high-fat high-fiber diet (HF) or a low-fat high-starch diet (LF). Duration of the feeding trial was 58.5 ± 0.5 days for all pigs. Two divergent pig lines that have been selected over eight generations for residual feed intake (RFI), a measure of feed efficiency, were used. Pigs selected for low RFI were the most efficient in the conversion of food to weight gain. There was no significant interaction (p > 0.10) between diet and line on performance and adiposity traits. At the end of the trial, weights of perirenal and dorsal subcutaneous adipose tissues (AT) were used as surrogates of body adiposity