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G Bayle

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[Transport of amino acids in the splanchnic bed by blood plasma and blood in the preruminant calf].

Three preruminant calves were fitted with catheters in portal and hepatic veins and in a mesenteric artery. Two electromagnetic flowmeter probes were clipped around the portal vein and the hepatic artery. The calves were fed either a diet with a low (L) or a high (R) abomasal emptying rate for dietary proteins. Blood flow and free amino acid levels in plasma (P) and blood (S) were determined before the morning meal and during the following 7 h. In the portal vein, for most amino acids P/S ratios were correlated to the net amino acid balance of the digestive tract measured in plasma. By contrast in the hepatic vein, these ratios were mainly correlated to hepatic balance measured in whole blood. Correlations between digestive tract and hepatic balance calculated using either plasma or whole blood pool were different for some amino acids. This suggests that amino acid exchange between plasma and blood cells is low and absorbed amino acids are mainly transported to the liver by plasma, whereas whole blood rather than plasma is concerned in amino acid exchanges in the liver.

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Effect of colostrum feeding on protein metabolism in the small intestine of newborn lambs.

In a first experiment with 24 newborn lambs, the promoting effect of colostrum feeding on the fresh weight of the small intestine and its protein content was demonstrated by comparison with that of other dietary treatments (fasting, lactose, protein hydrolysate feeding). In a second experiment, the amounts of colostral IgG1 entrapped within the intestine wall and the valine incorporation rates into the intestinal protein were determined in 3-, 8- and 18-hour-old lambs fed either cow milk, cow colostrum or ewe colostrum. The amounts of IgG1 in the small intestine wall and the valine incorporation rates were higher in the lambs fed colostrum (ewe or cow) than in the milk-fed animals. The intestinal protein increase resulted primarily from the retention of colostral proteins in the colostrum-fed newborn lambs. However, colostrum feeding stimulated intestinal protein synthesis more actively than milk feeding.

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Influences of age and weaning on in vivo pancreatic protein synthesis in the lamb.

In vivo pancreatic protein synthesis rates were obtained from the uptake of L-[3,4(n)-3H]valine co-injected with a flooding dose of unlabeled valine into 1-, 5-, and 8-wk-old suckling lambs, and 8-wk-old weaned animals. Protein fractional synthesis rate was 184%/d at 1 wk of age and 153%/d in 5-wk-old animals (P greater than 0.05). This lack of developmental change resulted from constant (P greater than 0.05) ribosomal capacities (total RNA/protein ratios) and efficiencies of protein synthesis (synthetic rates relative to RNA). No further alteration for protein fractional synthesis rate (144%/d) occurred in 8-wk-old suckling animals (P greater than 0.05). In contrast, 8-wk-old ruminants exhibited higher protein fractional synthesis rate (244%/d) than 8-wk-old suckling animals, although ribosomal capacity was markedly higher in both 8-wk-old groups than in youngest animals (P less than 0.05). The present findings clearly indicate that in vivo protein synthesis in the developing ovine pancreas depends primarily on age. Potentialities for increased rates of pancreatic protein synthesis, i.e., increases in total RNA content and ribosomal capacity appear between 5 and 8 wk of age in this species. At 8 wk of age, however, when lambs are generally weaned, solid food ingestion resulted in a rise for both fractional and absolute rates of protein synthesis, essentially because ruminants maintained a higher efficiency of protein synthesis than milk-fed animals (P less than 0.005). Finally, there was a relationship between pancreatic protein synthesis and protein intake in only ruminant lambs.

Age Factors↗

Respective influences of age and weaning on skeletal and visceral muscle protein synthesis in the lamb.

1. The influences of age and weaning on muscle protein synthesis were studied in vivo, by injecting a large dose of [3H]valine into 1-, 5- and 8-week-old suckling or 8-week-old weaned lambs. 2. The fractional rates of protein synthesis, in red- and white-fibre-type skeletal muscles or striated and smooth visceral muscles, were in 8-week-old suckling animals 24-37% of their values at 1 week of age. This developmental decline was related to decreased capacities for protein synthesis, i.e. RNA/protein ratios. 3. At 8 weeks of age, suckling and weaned lambs had similar fractional synthesis rates, capacities for protein synthesis and efficiencies of protein synthesis (i.e. rates of protein synthesis relative to RNA) in skeletal muscles. 4. In contrast, visceral-muscle fractional synthesis rates were lower in 8-week-old suckling lambs than in weaned animals, owing to decreased efficiencies of protein synthesis. It was concluded that developmental factors and the change to a solid diet, or weaning in itself, or both, affect differently skeletal and visceral muscle protein synthesis in the immature lamb.

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[Uterine retroversion. A simple surgical cure].

In 20% of the cases, painful symptoms which cannot be dismissed in general practice are experienced by women with uterine retrodeviation. The technique described here is based on anatomical reduction of Douglas' pouch with restoration of tension in the uterosacral ligaments. It is simple and rapid as expected for a minor anatomical defect. The creation of two perpendicular peritoneo-ligamentous planes ensures its solidity. The effectiveness and safety of this technique has been confirmed by a series of more than 70 patients 50% of whom were examined at regular intervals for more than 5 years after surgery.

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[Effect of diet and microflora on amino sugars in the digestive contents and faeces of rats, lambs and preruminant calves].

Glucosamine (Glc NH2) and galactosamine (Gal NH2) were determined by an automatized chromatographic method in samples from digestive contents and faeces. Germfree lambs and rats as well as conventional preruminant calves, lambs and rats were used in the experiments. The rats were fed an irradiated casein diet, the lambs UHT milk and the preruminant calves various diets (table 1). Concentrations of Glc NH2 and of Gal NH2 reached 6 g/16 g of N in the caecal contents and the faeces of germfree rats (table 2). Concentrations of Gal NH2 were 7 to 12 times lower and those of Glc NH2 4 times lower in conventional rats. In lambs, the amino sugar concentrations (table 3) found in the stomach contents resembled those supplied by the milk. In contrast, in the large intestine and the faeces, the concentration of amino sugars was very high. In conventional lambs, those concentrations were 8 to 4 times lower. For ruminant calves, the concentrations of amino sugars (table 4) were greater in the ileal contents than in the faeces. They reached that of meconium when the calves were fed milk. The lowest values were observed in the faeces of calves fed soya, colostrum or fish diets which are less digestible than milk. In germfree animals, the hexosamines were endogenous. In conventional animals, bacterial metabolism led to an increase in faecal Glc NH2/Gal NH2. In the calves fed soya or fish diets, the hexosamine content in the faeces was low owing to the dilution of bacterial and endogenous mucoproteins by the undigested dietary proteins.

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