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Niacin supplementation increases the number of oxidative type I fibers in skeletal muscle of growing pigs.
No finding here moved its endpoint.
What did not
1 findingHow to read these marks →“Feed intake, initial and final body weights, total and daily body weight gain, carcass weights and feed conversion ratio did not differ between the control group and the niacin group (Table 2).”
- Study
- animal · not in humans
- Duration
- 3 weeks
- Dose studied
- niacin (supplied by Lonza) 750 mg/kg diet added to a commercial diet; plasma nicotinic acid was measured and rose from below 5 ng/mL to 32 ng/mL; control diet already carried 34 mg niacin/kg from the premix, so the comparator is not niacin-free
- Population
- 25 male growing crossbred pigs (Danzucht x Pietrain), 11 weeks old, mean body weight 32.8 kg; 12 control and 13 niacin pigs
Study record
- Design
- animal study, in vivo
- Species
- animal
- Population
- Male crossbred growing pigs (Danzucht x Pietrain), 11 wk old
- Participants
- 25
- Comparator
- no treatment / placebo
- Duration
- 21 days
- Endpoints measured
- 25