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Studies on intestinal digestion in the sheep

3.* Net movement of certain inorganic elements in the digestive tract on rations containing different proportions of hay and rolled barley

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 March 2007

E. Pfeffer ,
A. Thompson  and
D. C. Armstrong
E. Pfeffer
Affiliation:
Department of Agricultural Biochemistry, University of Newcastle upon Tyne
A. Thompson
Affiliation:
Department of Agricultural Biochemistry, University of Newcastle upon Tyne
D. C. Armstrong
Affiliation:
Department of Agricultural Biochemistry, University of Newcastle upon Tyne
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1. In each of three experiments, two sheep were given diets consisting of hay, or two parts hay to one part barley or one part hay to two parts barley. Each sheep was equipped with a cannula into the rumen and re-entrant cannulas into the proximal duodenum and the terminal ileum. The rations containing barley were supplemented to adjust the intake of calcium, phosphorus, magnesium, sodium and potassium to a level similar to that in the all-hay ration. Paper impregnated with chromic oxide (Cr2O3) was given twice daily by rumen fistula.

2. Amounts of crude ash and the five minerals entering and leaving the small intestine and excreted in the faeces were measured. The amounts passing through the re-entrant cannulas were adjusted to give 100% recovery of chromic oxide. The values were used to calculate the direction and net movements of the elements through the walls of the three main parts of the alimentary tract.

3. In all instances there was an extensive net secretion of Na and P between mouth and small intestine, net absorption of K and P from the small intestine and of Na from the large intestine.

4. The net movements of Ca and Mg were small and rather variable. In five of the six observations there was a small net secretion of Ca and small net absorption of Mg during passage of the digesta through the reticulo-rurnen, omasurn and abomasurn. Net secretion of Ca and Mg apparently occurred in the small intestine and net absorption of Mg in the large intestine.

5. The only between-diet differences were small differences in net movements of Na and K.

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Research Article
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British Journal of Nutrition , Volume 24 , Issue 1 , March 1970 , pp. 197 - 204
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Copyright © The Nutrition Society 1970

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