title: [Relationships between the apparent digestibility of crude protein and the amino acid balance of the swine digestive tract].
abstract: A diet of equal composition (88% barley, 5% extracted sunflower meal, 3% fishmeal and 3% yeast) was subjected to 9 different forms of thermal treatment and fed to experimental pigs. The biological value of the proteins was found to decline from 65.9 below 50. The amino acid balance of the digestive tract ("true digestibility of amino acids" according to other authors) proved to deteriorate due to the thermal treatment. The individual amino acids always revealed highly significant positive correlations with the apparent digestibility of crude protein. This finding is related with the often demonstrated fact that the fecal protein always has a constant amino acid composition, irrespective of feed protein and, consequently, only influences the quantitative fecal protein secretion, i. e. the amino acid balance of the digestive tract which is suggested to be the cause of the mathematical relations shown.
mesh_terms: D000596:Amino Acids / Q000378:metabolism*; D000824:Animal Nutritional Physiological Phenomena; D000818:Animals; D004044:Dietary Proteins / Q000378:metabolism*; D004063:Digestion; D005243:Feces / Q000032:analysis*; D013552:Swine
chemical_list: D000596:Amino Acids; D004044:Dietary Proteins
vernacular_title: Beziehungen zwischen der scheinbaren Verdaulichkeit des Rohproteins und der Aminosäurenbilanz des Verdauungstraktes bei Schweinen.