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Effects of Duodenal Infusions of Essential Amino Acid on Nitrogen Balance and Plasma Urea Nitrogen of Growing-finishing Lambs

ZHANG Fan, GAO Xin-mei, XIAO Min-min, TANG Fu, GAO Wei   

  1. College of Animal Science and Technology, Shihezi University, Shihezi 832003, China
  • Received:2016-12-20 Online:2017-07-20 Published:2017-07-22

Abstract:

This study was aimed to explore the effects of duodenal infusions of essential amino acid (EAA) on nitrogen balance and plasma urea nitrogen (PUN) of growing-finishing lambs.Five Kazakh male lambs with (29.40±1.76) kg body weights and 4 months old were chosen,fitted with duodenal cannulae and raised in metabolic cage individually. The 5×5 Latin square design was used in this experiment and 7 d for per period. The duodenal infusions in control group contained no EAA,that in 8EAA group contained 8 kinds of EAA,while that in -Arg,-Lys and -Met groups were contained 8 kinds of EAA without Arg,Lys and Met,respectively. The results showed that the fecal N excretion in 8EAA group was no significant difference compared with control group (P>0.05),while the urinary N,N retention,N apparent digestibility and PUN concentration were significantly increased (P<0.05).Compared with 8EAA group,the N retention in -Arg,-Lys and -Met groups were significantly decreased by 30.62%,11.56% and 12.99% (P<0.05),and the daily gain were decreased by 13.89%,7.78% and 6.58% (P>0.05),respectively. PUN concentration was increased in response to the removement of Met,Arg and Lys. In conclusion,Arg,Met and Lys had restricted effect to Kazakh lamb in actual fattening conditions.

Key words: Kazakh lamb; duodenum; infusion; essential amino acid (EAA); nitrogen balance

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