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Response of lamb plasma carotenoid concentration to a shift from a low to a high dietary carotenoid level

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 December 2011

L. de Oliveira ,
P. C. F. Carvalho  and
S. Prache
L. de Oliveira
Affiliation:
Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), UR1213 Herbivores, Site de Theix, F-63122 Saint-Genès-Champanelle, France Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Av. Bento Gonçalves 7712, CEP 91501-970, Porto Alegre-RS, Brazil
P. C. F. Carvalho
Affiliation:
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Av. Bento Gonçalves 7712, CEP 91501-970, Porto Alegre-RS, Brazil
S. Prache*
Affiliation:
Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), UR1213 Herbivores, Site de Theix, F-63122 Saint-Genès-Champanelle, France
*
†E-mail: sophie.prache@clermont.inra.fr
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Abstract

This study was conducted to investigate the pattern of plasma carotenoid concentration (PCC) in lambs switching from a low to a high dietary carotenoid level. A total of 12 Romane lambs were individually penned indoors and fed a low dietary carotenoid level for 23 days (period 1) and then a high dietary carotenoid level for 15 days (period 2). At the beginning of period 2, the lambs were 15 weeks old and weighed 29.9 kg (s.d. 2.7) on average. Lambs were fed daily (dry matter) 0.558 kg alfalfa pellets, 0.181 kg straw and 0.181 kg barley. Plasma content of total carotenoids was measured daily in period 2 by spectrophotometry. PCC (μg/l) varied with the animal (P < 0.001) and with time elapsed since the beginning of alfalfa distribution (P < 0.001). Mean PCC was 8 μg/l (s.d. 3.3) at the beginning of period 2, then increased curvilinearly with the time elapsed since the beginning of alfalfa distribution. As early as 24 h on the alfalfa diet, PCC was already higher than before the switch (P < 0.001). Mean PCC continued to increase until day 6 on average and reached a plateau thereafter. We propose a monomolecular function to model this pattern, the equation obtained on the mean data being: PCC = 97 (s.e. 2.2) × (1−exp(−0.3378 (s.e. 0.0282)×d)), where r2 = 0.997, r.s.d. = 4.47, n = 15 and d = day. The percentage of variance explained by the model ranged between 95.9% and 99.2%, depending on the animal. The parameters of the monomolecular function varied among animals, confirming the interindividual variability in animal response. Plateau for PCC was reached slightly earlier for the six lambs with the lowest values of the asymptote than for the six lambs with the highest values of the asymptote.

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sheepcarotenoidsauthenticationlatency
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animal , Volume 6 , Issue 7 , 28 May 2012 , pp. 1139 - 1142
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Copyright © The Animal Consortium 2012

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