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The metabolism of methionine in silage-fed sheep

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 March 2007

Margaret Gill
Affiliation:
Sheep Husbandry Department, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
M. J. Ulyatt
Affiliation:
Applied Biochemistry Division, DSIR, Palmerston North, New Zealand
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Abstract

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1. L-[U-14C]methionine was used to study methionine metabolism in sheep fed on untreated silage, silage treated with formaldehyde and untreated silage plus intraperitoneal infusion of L-methionine.

2. Over-all the values ranged from 0.43 to 0.86 mmol/h for methionine turnover rate, from 13.3 to 19.9 for the percentage of methionine oxidized to carbon dioxide and from 245 to 1089 μmol for methionine pool size.

Type
Papers on General Nutrition
Copyright
Copyright © The Nutrition Society 1979

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