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Histidine—An Essential Nutrient for Growth of Pigs

Cornell University²

Abstract

Young pigs receiving a semi-synthetic diet containing all ten of the amino acids known to be required for the growth of the weanling rat grew at a fairly rapid rate, although not as rapidly as would be expected on a diet in which the same amount of nitrogen is furnished by casein, while pigs receiving the same diet minus histidine grew much slower or failed to grow at all. When histidine was added to their diets, these pigs showed greatly increased appetites and resumed growth almost immediately. It is concluded that histidine is required for the normal growth of young pigs.

¹ Present address: Research Division, American Cyanamid Company, Pearl River, New York.

² Departments of Animal Husbandry and Biochemistry and Nutrition, Ithaca, New York. Supported largely by a grant from the Herman Frasch Foundation.