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Absorption and metabolism of glucose by the mesenteric-drained viscera of sheep fed on dried-grass or ground, maize-based diets

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 March 2007

A. N. Janes ,
T. E. C. Weekes  and
D. G. Armstrong
A. N. Janes
Affiliation:
Department of Agricultural Biochemistry and Nutrition, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle upon Tyne, NEI 7RU
T. E. C. Weekes
Affiliation:
Department of Agricultural Biochemistry and Nutrition, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle upon Tyne, NEI 7RU
D. G. Armstrong
Affiliation:
Department of Agricultural Biochemistry and Nutrition, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle upon Tyne, NEI 7RU
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1. Sheep fitted with re-entrant canulas in the proximal duodenum and terminal ileum were used to determine the amount of α-glucoside entering, and apparently disappearing from, the small intestine when either dried-grass or ground maize-based diets were fed. The fate of any α-glucoside entering the small intestine was studied by comparing the net disappearance of such a-glucoside from the small intestine with the absorption of glucose into the mesenteric venous blood.

2. Glucose absorption from the small intestine was measured in sheep equipped with catheters in the mesenteric vein and carotid artery. A continuous infusion of [6-3H]glucose was used to determine glucose utilization by the mesenteric-drained viscera and the whole-body glucose turnover rate (GTR).

3. The amounts of α-glucoside entering the small intestine when the dried-grass and maize-based diets were given were 13.9 (SE 1.5) and 95.4 (SE 16.2) g/24 h respectively; apparent digestibilities of such α-glucoside in the small intestine were 60 and 90% respectively.

4. The net absorption of glucose into the mesenteric venous blood was —2.03 (SE 1.20) and 19.28 (SE 0.75) mmol/h for the dried-grass and maize-based diets respectively. Similarly, total glucose absorption amounted to 1.52 (SE 1.35) and 23.33 (SE 1.86) mmol/h (equivalent to 7 and 101 g/24 h respectively). These values represented 83 and 11 1% of the a-glucoside apparently disappearing from the small intestine, determined using the re-entrant cannulated sheep.

5. Total glucose absorption represented 8 and 61% of the whole-body GTR for the dried-grass and maize-based diets respectively. Endogenous glucose production was significantly lower when the sheep were fed on the maize-based diet compared with the dried-grass diet.

6. The mesenteric-drained viscera metabolized a small amount of glucose, equivalent to 234 and 17% of the total glucose absorbed for the dried-grass and maize-based diets respectively.

7. It is concluded that a large proportion of the starch entering the small intestine of sheep given a maize-based diet is digested and absorbed as glucose, and thus contributes to the whole-body GTR.

Type
Papers on General Nutrition
Information
British Journal of Nutrition , Volume 54 , Issue 2 , September 1985 , pp. 449 - 458
Copyright
Copyright © The Nutrition Society 1985

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