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The onset of mammary secretion of medium-chain-length triglyceride fatty acids in the cow milked pre-partum
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 June 2009
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Six Friesian cows were milked daily, and arterial and mammary venous blood samples were taken between day 266 of gestation and day 6 after parturition. Samples of blood plasma were analysed for their content of acetate and progesterone, and mammary secretion for potassium, isocitrate, 2-oxoglutarate and triglyceride fatty acids.
The onset of secretion of medium-chain triglyceride fatty acids was preceded by, or coincided with, increases of potassium and isocitrate concentration in the secretion. The onset of fatty acid secretion was not accompanied by any change in the gland's extraction of acetate from the circulation, and did not occur at a consistent time relative to parturition or changes in plasma progesterone concentration.
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