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Hyperalimentation to 120% of PST-treated cannulated control animals did not negatively affect feed efficiency as was demonstrated previously with non-PST-treated pigs. It may be inferred that the pig treated with PST can utilize feed in excess of the quantity voluntarily consumed, albeit, the primary use of this feed appears to be for fat deposition. This cannulation system may provide a model to evaluate nutrient relationships and perhaps to examine intake mechanism controls.","\"An experiment was conducted to evaluate the response of pigs treated with PST or saline to graded levels of an \"\"ideal protein.\"\" The amino acid profile used to achieve this ideal protein provided histidine, isoleucine, leucine, methionine and cysteine, phenylalanine and tyrosine, threonine, tryptophan, and valine as 33%, 50%, 110%, 63%, 119%, 72%, 19%, and 75%, of lysine respectively. The levels of ideal protein used were 14, 17, 20, 23, 26, and 29%. Neither saline- nor PST-treated pigs responded to incremental increases in ideal protein content of the diet for any criteria examined. Treatment with PST resulted in improved feed efficiency. This improved efficiency was incident to the increases in total body protein deposition as well as depressed fat deposition.\"","Made available in DSpace on 2011-05-07T13:00:40Z (GMT). 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