Nutritional effects of two levels of L-glutamic acid (L-Glu) combined with four levels of vitamin K (vit. K) in serum and the liver of chicks of day-old broilers, male, Hubbard, raised in brooded batteries, receiving basic purified diet supplemented with 6.25 and 12.5% of L-Glu combined with 0.02, 0.2, 2.0 and 20.0 mg vit. K/kg. Two hundred and fifty birds were allotted to completely randomized design an in 2 × 4 factorial arrangement, with four replications of eight birds each. Calcium and alkaline phosphatase (AP) enzyme concentrations in serum did not differ at 7, 14 and 21 days old. Serum phosphorus levels differed at 21 days and were higher with 12.5% L-Glu. Liver weight was higher in birds fed diet with 6.25% L-Glu and 12.5% L-Glu + 0.02 mg vit. K/kg. Total serum protein remained far below normal levels. Concentrations of the alanine aminotransferase enzyme were high in birds fed L-Glu and vit. K in the evaluated levels. Serum concentrations of alanine aminotransferase enzyme was much higher than that levels considered normal for birds fed diets containing L-Glu and vit. K, in the evaluated levels. Vitamin K levels affected nor the absorption of calcium and phosphorus and the AP enzyme neither the bone tissue metabolism. No-specific nitrogen level (glutamic acid) of 6.25% of the diets changed the metabolism of bone tissue, as a result of the higher concentration of alkaline phosphatase enzyme in the serum of birds.
alkalyne phosphatase; blood serum; liver tissue; minerals; poultry; transaminase
