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Phosphorus kinetics in calves experimentally infected with Cooperia punctata evaluated by isotopic dilution

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 November 2017

R. R. Rodrigues*
Affiliation:
Centre of Nuclear Energy in Agriculture, Av. Centenário, 303, 13400-970, Piracicaba, SP, Brazil.
D. M. S. S. Vitti
Affiliation:
Centre of Nuclear Energy in Agriculture, Av. Centenário, 303, 13400-970, Piracicaba, SP, Brazil.
S. M. Gennari
Affiliation:
, Laboratory of Parasitic Diseases, Faculty of Veterinary. Medicine and Animal Science, Av. Prof. Dr. Orlando M. Paiva, 87, 05508-900, São Paulo - SP - Brazil
J.L. Guerra
Affiliation:
Department of Pathology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science, Av. Prof. Dr. Orlando M. Paiva, 87, 05508-900, São Paulo - SP - Brazil
A. L. Abdalla
Affiliation:
Centre of Nuclear Energy in Agriculture, Av. Centenário, 303, 13400-970, Piracicaba, SP, Brazil.
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Cooperia punctata is the most prevalent intestinal parasite in young bovines in Brazil (Lima, 1998). The site of fixation of C. punctata is the upper part of the small intestine (Bailey, 1949), also the site of dietary phosphorus (P) absorption (Schröder et al, 1995), and the damage caused in the intestinal epithelium could interfere with P metabolism (Bown et al, 1989). The aim of the present experiment was to evaluate the P kinetics by using 32P isotopic dilution technique in calves submitted to single and trickle infection by C. punctata.

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Copyright © The British Society of Animal Science 2005

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