Changes in hormones, growth factor and lipid metabolism in finishing pigs fed betaine

QC Huang, ZR Xu, XY Han, WF Li - Livestock Science, 2006 - Elsevier
An experiment was conducted to investigate the effect of dietary betaine supplementation on
carcass characteristics, hormones, growth factor and lipid metabolism in finishing pigs. Forty …

Effects of betaine on growth, carcass characteristics, pork quality, and plasma metabolites of finishing pigs

JO Matthews, LL Southern, AD Higbie… - Journal of animal …, 2001 - academic.oup.com
An experiment was conducted to determine the effect of dietary betaine (0, 0.125, 0.250, or
0.500%) on growth, carcass traits, pork quality, plasma metabolites, and tissue betaine …

Effects of betaine on growth performance and carcass characteristics in growing pigs

DY Yu, ZR Xu, WF Li - Asian-australasian journal of animal sciences, 2004 - animbiosci.org
Ninety six growing pigs (DurocŨLandraceŨJia) were used to investigate the effects of
betaine on growth, nutrient utilization, carcass composition and meat quality at different …

Impact of betaine on pig finishing performance and carcass composition

BV Lawrence, AP Schinckel, O Adeola… - Journal of animal …, 2002 - academic.oup.com
Two experiments were conducted to evaluate the effect of betaine supplementation of
finishing diets on growth performance and carcass characteristics of swine. Experiment 1 …

A meta-analysis of the effects of dietary betaine supplementation on finishing performance and carcass characteristics of pigs

J Sales - Animal feed science and technology, 2011 - Elsevier
Inconsistent results of the effects of dietary betaine supplementation on important economic
carcass characteristics of finishing pigs have been reported. This has motivated a …

Effect of dietary betaine on nutrient utilization and partitioning in the young growing feed-restricted pig

I Fernández-Fígares, D Wray-Cahen… - Journal of animal …, 2002 - academic.oup.com
The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of dietary betaine over a range of
concentrations (between 0 and 0.5%) on growth and body composition in young feed …

The effects of supplementing growing finishing swine diets with betaine and (or) choline on growth and carcass characteristics

JW Smith, BT Richert, KQ Owen, JR Bergstrom… - 1994 - krex.k-state.edu
Eighty crossbred gilts (initially 134 lb) were used in a growth assay to evaluate the effects of
supplementing finishing pig diets with betaine and (or) choline on growth performance and …

Effects of betaine on performence, carcass characteristics and hepatic betaine-homocysteine methyltransferase activity in finishing barrows

J Feng, X Liu, YZ Wang, ZR Xu - Asian-australasian journal of …, 2006 - koreascience.kr
This experiment was conducted to determine the effect of dietary betaine (0, 0.125%) on
performance, carcass composition, pork quality and hepatic betaine-homocysteine …

Effect of dietary betaine supplementation on lipogenic enzyme activities and fatty acid synthase mRNA expression in finishing pigs

QC Huang, ZR Xu, XY Han, WF Li - Animal Feed Science and Technology, 2008 - Elsevier
An experiment was conducted to investigate the effect of dietary betaine supplementation on
growth performance, carcass characteristics, lipogenic enzyme activities in subcutaneous …

Interactive effects of betaine, crude protein, and net energy in finishing pigs

JO Matthews, LL Southern, JE Pontif… - Journal of animal …, 1998 - academic.oup.com
Two experiments were conducted to determine the effect of betaine on growth and carcass
characteristics of finishing pigs. In Exp. 1, 32 gilts were fed one of two diets: 1) a corn …