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R Schadereit

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[Determination of endogenous nitrogen in feces using the isotope technic].

A ration consisting of wheat gluten and N-free components was supplemented with L-lysine and L-leucine and fed to two groups of growing Wistar rats. Group 1 received 15N Lys and unlabelled Leu, group 2 received unlabelled Lys and 15N Leu in order to study the influence of the utilization of the 15N marker on the labelling quota of faeces and urine as well as various fractions of the body. The good utilization of Lys in group 1 results in a higher 15N excess in faeces and a reduced 15N abundance in urine in comparison to group 2 with a lower utilization of 15N Leu. The results show that the 15N abundance in urine is unsuitable as an indicator of the 15N labelling quota of endogenous metabolic faecal nitrogen.

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[15N transamination in the administration of various tracer substances. 1. Whole body studies in rats].

4 groups of 3 growing Wistar rats each were orally given either 15N methionine, 15N lysine, 15N glycine or 15N ammonia sulphate over 10 days. By means of measuring 15N, the 15N accumulation in the amino acids (AA) of the body protein, statements were to be made on the transamination of the individual 15N substances and thus their suitability as tracer substances for studies of N metabolism. None of the tested 15N AA achieved a proportionate labelling of all AA of the body protein. The AA used as tracer in each case showed the highest 15N labelling of all AA in the body. Of the amino 15N detected in the animal body, ca. 19% were found in Met after a 15N Met application, ca. 88% in Lys after a 15N Lys application and ca. 50% in Gly after a 15N Gly application. After the application of 15N ammonia sulphate ca. 42% of the body amino 15N are apportioned to the essential and ca. 58% to the non-essential AA. Thus this substance produces a more proportional labelling of the essential and non-essential AA of the body protein than 15N Gly. The following quotas of the 15N amounts applied were found in the AA of the animal bodies: tracer substance lysine 52%, glycine 32%, ammonia sulphate 24%, methionine 21%. After summing up the amino acid 15N amounts in the animal body, eliminating in each case the tracer AA and taking into account the molecular weight of the AA, there was a good agreement of the intensity of the accumulation of 15N in the individual AA, irrespective of the applied tracer substance: arginine, glutamic acid, cysteine and aspartic acid highest, threonine, phenylalanine and lysine lowest accumulation.

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[Absorption and use of amino acids infused into the cecum of growing pigs. 4. Comparative studies on oral or cecal administration of 15N-lysine and 15N-urea, respectively].

12 pigs were divided into 4 groups. All animals received an identical basal diet deficient in lysine and additional isonitrogenous amounts of 66.4 mmol N in the form of 15N-lysine and 15N-urea resp. orally or caecally. Caecal application was carried out as permanent infusion through caecal cannulae. N- and 15N-balances were ascertained of all animals and the remain of the labelled nitrogen was determined. From the comparison of the N-balances the conclusion can be drawn that though caecally applied N-compounds, whether they were infused as amino acids or as non-amino acid-N, disappear in the large intestine, i.e. are digested, do not, however, improve the N-balance but are excreted as additional urine-N. Subsequent to oral application, lysine or urea are almost quantitatively absorbed in the small intestine. Absorbed lysine is used in the synthesis of body protein, absorbed urea, however, is almost completely excreted in urine (83% of the 15N-amount absorbed). 15N-excretion in faeces after the oral application of 15N-lysine and 15N-urea resp. was less than 1% of the 15N-amount applied, after caecal infusion, however, it was approximately 6%, the biggest part of which (70-77%) was incorporated in bacteria protein. After caecal infusion the main quota of the infused 15N-amount (greater than or equal to 80%) was excreted in urine, most of it in the form of urea. After the oral application of 15N-lysine this could be detected in both the TCA-soluble fraction of the serum and the serum protein. After caecal infusion 15N in the TCA-soluble fraction of the serum could mainly be found as NPN, absorption and incorporation of intact 15N-lysine were considerably lower. An calculation showed that the maximum of the absorbed 15N-amount in the form of lysine was 3% and that of the infused amount was 1.8%. It can generally be doubted that the absorption of lysine in the large intestine is significant in the protein metabolism. The absorption of utilizable lysine is practically completed at the end of the ileum. In the large intestine mainly the ammonia by the catabolic activity of the intestinal flora is absorbed and subsequently excreted through the intestines.

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[Dependence of intestinal excretion of amino acids on the amino acid content of animal feed. 2. Intestinal excretion of amino acids feeding soybean oil meal].

In an experiment with 20 15N-labelled growing rats the excretion of amino acids and the excretion of metabolic faecal amino acids were investigated after the feeding of soybean oil meal as sole protein source. A low, yet statistically significant increase of the excretion of amino acids and metabolic faecal amino acids was ascertained in accordance with a growing quota of soybean oil meal in the ration. The true digestibility of amino acids ascertained according to conventional methods is above 90% and, under consideration of the increase of metabolic faecal amino acids, on average increases by 3.5 digestibility units (1.4 to 6.2).

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[Absorption and utilization of amino acids infused into the cecum of growing pigs. 2. 15N-labeled lysine].

Over a period of 4 days 15N-labelled lysine was infused into two growing female pigs (live weight approximately 50 kg) through a caecal cannula. The feeding was restrictive (1,400 g dry matter/day) and, with regard to lysine, it didn't meet the requirement. In a 7-day experiment the N- and 15N-content was measured periodically in the excretions (feces and urine), in various fractions of the blood and in selected slaughtering samples. From the infused 15N 3-5% are excreted as lysine in feces, another 5% are in other amino acids of the bacteria protein. The disappearance rate of 15N' from the large intestine makes greater than or equal to 90%. The biggest part of this 15N (78-88%) is excreted with the urine in form of 15N-urea. Obviously the infused amino acid is decomposed to NH3 in the large intestine and then absorbed. The absorbed ammonia is changed into urea in the ornithine cycle and excreted in urine. The recovery rate of the 15N infused as 15N-lysine is 93 and 84% resp. Incorporation of 15N in to serum protein or other body protein could not be detected so that the remaining difference of 7-16% cannot necessarily be interpreted as incorporation rate of 15N into the body protein. Under practical conditions the maximal utilisation of lysine from the feed in the large intestine is 1.6% and should thus be without importance.

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[Dependence of metabolic fecal amino acids on the amino acid content of the feed. 1. Metabolic fecal amino acids of rats fed with maize].

The amount of metabolic fecal amino acids (MFAA) in dependence on the amino acid intake was determined for graded maize rations with 15N-labelled rats and the quota of labelled endogenous amino acids in faeces was calculated according to the isotope dilution method. The excretion of amino acids and MFAA in faeces are described as functions of the amino acid intake for 17 amino acids and regressively calculated. For all 17 amino acids investigated, there was a more or less steep increase of MFAA according to an increasing amino acid intake. In contrast to MFAA in N-free feeding, MFAA in feeding with pure maize (16.5% crude protein) increase to the 2- to 4.5-fold value. The thesis of the constancy of the excretion of MFAA can consequently be no longer maintained. The true digestibility according to the conventional method is, on an average of all amino acids, 7.3 units below the one ascertained according to the 15N-isotope method. For the limiting amino acids lysine and threonine the difference is biggest (23 resp. 17 units). Tryptophane as first limiting amino acid could not be determined. The true digestibility of nearly all amino acids ascertained for maize according to the isotope method is above 90%. For the limiting amino acids the expenditure resp. the loss of endogenous amino acids is biggest.

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[Improving the nutritive value of rapeseed meal, using production process principles].

With regard to studies on production process variants designed to improve the nutritive value of rapeseed meal, the authors describe the principles underlying the modified diffusion extraction procedures used (with and without rapeseed husking). Furthermore, they briefly outline the chemical methods applied to the determination of the nutrient composition and glucosinolate content of rapeseed meal variants as well as the methodology of their feeding and nitrogen balance experiments on growing albino rats and broilers. The results obtained with 13 analytical variants and 8 biological variants confirm once more the beneficial nutritive effects obtained with the reduction of the glucosinolate content of rapeseed meal in monogastric animal species. However, these results do not permit to appraise unequivocally the repercussion of rapeseed husking on the diminution of the content of paraplastic substances in rapeseed meal. The diffusion techniques used for reducing the glucosinolate content in rapeseed meal have been found to be effective.

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[Usage of feeding yeast "Fermosin" grown on mineral oil distillate in animal nutrition. 2. Digestibility of the nutrients of Fermosin feeding yeast on broilers (chickens) and fattening pigs].

The digestibility of the nutrients of Fermosin was tested on pigs and the following values were ascertained: organic matter=86%, crude protein=89% and N-free extractives=83%. The net energy ascertained on the basis of the content of nutrients and the digestibility of the nutrients of Fermosin amounts to 617 energetic feed units for pigs/kg dry matter. The true digestibility of the amino acids of Fermosin was determined on pigs and chicken. For lysin the true digestibility was ascertained as 95% (pigs) and 73% (Broilers). Due to the different digestion abilities of the two animal species, corresponding differences in the digestibility of the other amino acids were found as well.

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[Amino acid composition of non-absorbed peptide fractions in rat small intestines. III. Feeding of wheat gluten and molasses yeast. Essential amino acid content of feces].

The authors investigated the nitrogen content of different fractions and in particular the aminoacid composition of the trichloroacetic acid (TCA)-precipitable and TCA-soluble peptides in the distal small intestine of rats which had been fed experimental diets (nitrogen-free or containing casein, wheat gluten or molasses yeast as a protein carrier). Parallel with this, they determined in growing rats the nitrogen and amino-acid digestibility of molasses yeast and wheat gluten according to the technique of faecal analysis, and studied the amino-acid composition of the faecal protein. Independently of the dietary protein fed, the peptide fractions of the content of the intestine showed an amino-acid composition that was largely similar to that found in case of nitrogen-free diet. The amino-acid composition of the faecal protein is, independently of the dietary protein given, relatively constant and corresponds approximately to the intestinal loss protein. There is agreement between the amino-acid composition of the TCA-precipitable peptide fractions and those of the corresponding faecal proteins. These components seem to be of endogenous origin.

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[Absorption and utilization of amino acids infused into the cecum of growing swine. 3. Studies with 15N- and 14C-labeled isoleucine].

In 3 experiments growing female pigs, (live weight 35-56 kg) received continuous infusions of 15N-labelled or 15N- and 14C-doubly labelled isoleucine by means of caecal cannulae. The whereabouts of the infused isoleucine were investigated. Between 8.9 and 12.3% of the infused 15N-excess (15N') was excreted in faeces mainly in the forms of bacteria protein, between 0.7 and 0.9% only of the infused amount unchanged as 15N-isoleucine. The highest quota is microbially decomposed in the colon and absorbed in the form of NH3 or amines. Between 45 and 70% of the infused 15N are excreted in urine, mainly as urea (85-95% of the 15N-amount in urine). Virtually no 15N from the infused isoleucine is incorporated in the organ and tissue proteins (exception: colon wall). These findings are corroborated by the 14C-activity measuring as no intact 14C labelled isoleucine could be detected in the tissue protein. These results show that intact isoleucine is not absorbed in the colon. The nitrogen originating from the absorbed NH3 is nearly completely excreted in urine and thus not available to the biosynthesis of body protein.

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Determining of nitrogen absorption and nitrogen secretion in different sections of the pig's intestine by digesta exchange between 15N labelled and unlabelled animals.

In an experiment with 3 pigs (initial live weight 30 kg, each fitted with 2 re-entrant fistulas in duodenum and ileum, one labelled with 15N), the duodenal and ileum digesta was exchanged. The N and 15N contents were estimated in faeces, urine, duodenal and ileum digesta of all experimental animals as well as in special organs and in the contents of different tract sections. The 15N excess (15N') of N compounds secreted into the gut lumen was determined using the 15N' in pancreas, gut mucosa and TCA-soluble blood serum. From measuring the digesta passage through the 3 sections of the digestive tract: 1. mouth ... duodenum, 2. duodenum ... ileum, 3. ileum ... after (Krawielitzki et al., 1989) the absorption and secretion rates of nitrogen were calculated. Secretion into the 1st section amounted to 5.3 g N/d (= 15% of intake) and the absorption to approximately 1% of intake. In the 2nd section the corresponding dates were 8.9 resp. 38.6 g N/d (= 25 resp. 110% of N intake), and in the 3rd one 1.9 resp. 8.4 g N/d (= 5.6 resp. 24% of N intake). Total absorption amounted to 134% of N intake and the over all re-absorption of endogenous N compounds secreted into the gut lumen to about 90%. During the passage the amount of endogenous N (g/d) decreased from 5.3 at the duodenum to 3.8 at the ileum to 1.6 in the faeces, but the relative portion increased (13 resp. 35 resp. 39%). An incorporation into body proteins occurred only from N compounds absorbed in the 1st and in the 2nd section. N (or 15N) absorbed in the large intestine was almost quantitatively excreted by urine. The method of digesta exchange between cannulated labelled and unlabelled pigs seems to be a suitable method to estimate absorption and secretion of exogenous and endogenous N portions in various sections of the digestive tract.

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