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Protein utilization in the young steer: digestion and nitrogen retention of 15N-labelled rumen bacterial protein

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 March 2007

D. N. Salter  and
R. H. Smith
D. N. Salter
Affiliation:
National Institute for Research in Dairying, Shinfield, Reading, Berks RG2 9AT
R. H. Smith
Affiliation:
National Institute for Research in Dairying, Shinfield, Reading, Berks RG2 9AT
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1. 15N-labelled mixed rumen bacteria, obtained from a steer that had received [15N]urea in its diet, were disrupted ultrasonically and freed from nucleic acids and their degradation products. Samples were subjected to a simulated abomasal digestion with pepsin.

2. The digests were infused with a non-absorbable marker (polyethylene glycol) into the duodenum of four steers equipped with simple duodenal and re-entrant ileal cannulas and adapted to a diet of barley straw, flaked maize and urea. The outflow from the ileum was collected for 6–7 h. The mean value for the digestibility of 15N bacterial proteins in the small intestine was estimated to be 0.74.

3. [14C]urea was administered intravenously during the infusion of the 15N-labelled protein into the duodenum. Urine and faeces were collected for the next 48 h and the proportion of urea-N produced, that was excreted in the urine, estimated from urine 14C excretion. Total urea 15N production was estimated from this value and the amount of 15N excreted in the urine. The mean proportion of 15N absorbed that was deposited in body protein, 0.70, was calculated by difference. The over-all efficiency of utilization of 15N in the infused rumen bacterial protein was 0.52.

4. An approximate estimate of the mean rate of protein synthesis calculated from the data was 24 g/kg body-weight (W)0.75 per d and compared with an estimated net deposition of protein of 1.67 g/kg W0.75 per d.

5. The importance of these values in factorial schemes for estimating ruminant N requirements is discussed.

Type
Papers on General Nutrition
Information
British Journal of Nutrition , Volume 51 , Issue 3 , May 1984 , pp. 531 - 539
Copyright
Copyright © The Nutrition Society 1984

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