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Rumen microbial production estimated either from urinary purine derivative excretion or from direct measurements of 15N and purine bases as microbial markers: effect of protein source and rumen bacteria isolates

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 September 2010

J. F. Pérez ,
J. Balcells ,
J. A. Guada  and
C. Castrillo
J. F. Pérez
Affiliation:
Departamento de Producción Animal y Ciencia de los Alimentos, Universidad de Zaragoza C/M.Servet 177, Zaragoza 50013, Spain
J. Balcells
Affiliation:
Departamento de Producción Animal y Ciencia de los Alimentos, Universidad de Zaragoza C/M.Servet 177, Zaragoza 50013, Spain
J. A. Guada
Affiliation:
Departamento de Producción Animal y Ciencia de los Alimentos, Universidad de Zaragoza C/M.Servet 177, Zaragoza 50013, Spain
C. Castrillo
Affiliation:
Departamento de Producción Animal y Ciencia de los Alimentos, Universidad de Zaragoza C/M.Servet 177, Zaragoza 50013, Spain
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Abstract

Four ewes fitted with ruminal and duodenal T-piece cannulae were each given six diets in a 6 × 4 factorial design. Diets or experimental treatments consisted of two ratios of forage: concentrate (700:150 (LC) and 400: 600 (HO). Forage was ammonia-treated straw and the concentrate was formulated with barley supplemented with one of three protein sources: sunflower meal, soya-bean meal or fish meal. Duodenal flows ofdigesta were estimated by the dual-phase technique using Co-EDTA and Yb acetate as liquid and solid markers. Microbial nitrogen (N) was estimated from the digesta flow of purine bases and 15N enrichment using as reference samples, bacterial isolates from the liquid (LAB) or solid (SAB) phase of rumen digesta.

Duodenal flow of purine bases (mmol/day) was lower on LC (12·9) than HC (17·7) diets but in both treatments it was depressed by fish meal (12·3) compared with either soya-bean (17·3) or sunflower meal (16·3) as supplements (s.e. 1·13). Urinary excretion of purine derivatives showed a similar trend, 8·6 v. III mmol/day in LC and HC respectively and 8·8 v. 10·4 and 10·5 mmol/day in fish meal, soya-bean and sunflower meal diets (s.e. 0·56), respectively. Variation in excretion of urinary purine derivatives was mainly associated with digestible organic matter intake with an average ratio of 1·7 (s.e. 0·11) mmol per 100 g digestible organic matter intake. Irrespective of the microbial marker used, microbial yield was higher in animals offered HC than in those offered LC and with soya-bean or sunflower meal compared with fish meal supplemented diets. The microbial purine bases/N (mmol/g) ratio varied between LAB (1·99, s.e. 0·092) and SAB (1·69, s.e. 0·071) isolates leading to different estimates of microbial-N yield (g) from duodenal purine bases (7·76 (s.e. 2·84) v. 9·13 (s.e. 3·24)), urinary excretion of allantoin (5·57 (s.e. 2·0) v. 6·57 (s.e. 2·03)) or total purine derivatives (6·43 (s.e. 2·39) v. 7·56 (s.e. 2·77)). Urinary excretion of allantoin or total purine derivatives provided consistently lower estimates of duodenal microbial-N than duodenal purine bases or 15N, although it closely reflected the pattern observed in direct measurements.

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isotope labellingprotein sourcespurinesrumen bacteria
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Research Article
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Animal Science , Volume 65 , Issue 2 , October 1997 , pp. 225 - 236
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Copyright © British Society of Animal Science 1997

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