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Table 3 Body weight gain, food intake, feed efficiency, and lung weight of mice a

From: Short-term glutamine supplementation decreases lung inflammation and the receptor for advanced glycation end-products expression in direct acute lung injury in mice

 

Unchallenged

ALI

pvalues from Two-way ANOVAb

Control

GLN

Control

GLN

ALI

GLN

ALI × GLN

Initial body weight (g)

20.0 ± 0.9

20.0 ± 0.9

20.1 ± 0.8

20.1 ± 0.8

NS

NS.

NS.

Body weight gain (g/d)

0.25 ± 0.09

0.21 ± 0.17

0.19 ± 0.10

0.15 ± 0.11

< 0.05

NS.

NS.

Food intake (g/d)

4.24 ± 0.28

4.11 ± 0.30

4.50 ± 0.44

4.32 ± 0.84

NS.

NS.

NS.

Feed efficiency (%)c

5.89 ± 2.08

4.90 ± 4.36

4.06 ± 2.14

3.40 ± 2.49

< 0.05

NS.

NS.

Lung weight (g)

0.15 ± 0.03

0.14 ± 0.01

0.24 ± 0.06

0.23 ± 0.04

< 0.001

NS.

NS.

Relative lung weight (%)d

0.65 ± 0.10

0.60 ± 0.08

1.09 ± 0.27

1.06 ± 0.17

< 0.001

NS.

NS.

  1. aEach value represents Mean ± S.D., n = 10-12. NS., no significant difference.
  2. bThe significance of differences among four groups were analyzed by two-way ANOVA. Values not sharing a same superscript letters in the horizontal row are significantly different from one another by Duncan’s Multiple Range Test (P < 0.05).
  3. cFeed efficiency (%) = 〔body weight gain (g)/food intake (g)〕 × 100.
  4. dRelative lung weight (%) = (lung weight/body weight) × 100.
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BMC Pulmonary Medicine

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