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Phosophorus kinetics in the sheep

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 March 2007

N. D. Grace
N. D. Grace
Affiliation:
Applied Biochemistry Division, DSIR, Private Bag, Palmerston North, New Zealand
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1. Ten castrated young adult sheep were brought indoors and given lucerne chaff (four animals with a phosphorus intake of 2.40 g/d) and fresh Ruanui ryegrass (six animals with a P intake of 3.72 g/d) to determine various kinetic indices of their P metabolism.

2. The results obtained from combined nutritional balance and 32P radioactivity measurements were analysed using the simulation, analysis and modelling computer (SAAM) program. Since the plasma P specific activity curve was described by at least four exponential terms, a four compartmental model (M1, M2, M3 and M4) was used to describe the experimental values.

3. The mean mass of the total exchangeable P pool (MT) for the lucerne chaff-fed and Ruanui ryegrass-fed sheep was 25.5 and 28.8 g respectively, while the total P transport (VT) to the exchangeable pool (MT) was markedly lower for sheep given lucerne chaff compared to those given Ruanui ryegrass (54.1 v. 111.3 mg/kg body-weight per d). Likewise the rate of P absorption (Va), faecal endogenous loss of P (Vf), urinary P excretion (Vu) as well as the movement of P to (Vo+) and from (Vo−) the skeleton and soft tissue was also lower in the lucerne chaff-fed sheep.

4. The availability of P, that is the proportion of ingested P which is absorbed, was 0.56 and 0.62 for the sheep given chaff and fresh herbage respectively.

5. The P metabolism of one sheep (sheep no. 30) differed from the other sheep in that its plasma inorganic P concentration was higher (95 v. 54 mg/l). This was associated with a larger first compartment (M1), a more rapid P transport between M1 and M2, an increase in (Va) and a marked increase in (Vu).

Type
Papers on General Nutrition
Information
British Journal of Nutrition , Volume 45 , Issue 2 , March 1981 , pp. 367 - 374
Copyright
Copyright © The Nutrition Society 1981

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