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Table 1 Effect of the dietary treatment on slaughter age and weight, growth rate, alpha-tocopherol muscle content, intramuscular fat, TBARS and metmyoglobin formation

From: Genome-wide expression profiling in muscle and subcutaneous fat of lambs in response to the intake of concentrate supplemented with vitamin E

Treatment1

 

CON

VE

SE

P-value

Performance

 Weaning Weight (kg)

15.29

11.59

0.5246

**

 Slaughter Age (days)

72.28

86.28

3.59

*

 Slaughter Weight (kg)

23.20

22.71

0.45

ns

 Average Daily Gain (g/day)

  - From birth to weaning

281.43

203.71

11.10

**

  - Experimental period2

337.86

276.57

22.70

ns

  - From birth to slaughter

278.14

230.57

12.25

*

L. Thoracis muscle

 α-Tocopherol, mg/kg muscle

0.13

2.26

0.07

***

 IMF (% fresh matter)

2.03

1.68

0.25

ns

 TBARS (7 d)3

1.62

0.07

0.17

***

 K/S572/525 (7 d)4

0.93

1.06

0.03

*

  1. 1CON: commercial concentrate without VE supplement; VE: VE concentrate for 33.3 ± 1.07 days before slaughter. Means within a row with different superscripts differ (P < 0.05); SE: standard error; ns: not significant; ***P < 0.001; **P < 0.01;*P < 0.05; 2Experimental period started at 48 d old. 3TBARS: mg of malonaldehyde per kg of L. Thoracis muscle at 7 days of display; 4K/S572/525: ratio of metmyoglobin formation of L. Thoracis muscle at 7 days of display
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