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D E Jewell

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Effect of feeding finishing pigs extruded full-fat soybeans on performance and pork quality.

This experiment was designed to test whether changing the type and amount of added dietary fat would affect performance or meat quality. Dietary fat was added as tallow or extruded full-fat soybeans (FFS). Isoenergetic diets containing 10% FFS, 20% FFS, or 4% tallow were fed for 3 or 6 wk before slaughther. A conventional corn-soybean meal diet served as a no-added-fat control. Each of the seven dietary groups contained 20 pigs, equally distributed among four pens, with barrows and gilts segregated. Significance of treatment, sex, and interaction effects were evaluated for 34 meat quality, composition, and sensory evaluation traits. Treatment x sex interactions were not detected (P greater than .05). Treatment main effects were detected for percentage of fat and water in the bacon and for lipid oxidation in bacon and the longissimus muscle. The 6 df for treatment were partitioned into six contrasts to test for the trends within and between diets. A trend toward reduced fat and increased moisture in bacon was detected in the 10% FFS diet over time (P less than .05). In general, lipid oxidation of bacon and longissimus muscle increased with level of FFS in the diet, length of time on the diet, and storage time of the meat. Although statistically significant, the magnitude of these effects was small and did not affect the sensory characteristics of longissimus muscle samples. It was concluded that short-term feeding of FFS before slaughter did not adversely affect animal growth or meat quality.

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Characterization of lipid in loin and bacon from finishing pigs fed full-fat soybeans or tallow.

This experiment tested whether the lipid composition of pork could be altered by changes in dietary lipid, that what effects these changes would have on production and meat characteristics. Pigs were fed diets containing 10 or 20%+ extruded full-fat soybeans (FFS) or 4% tallow for a 3- or 6-wk finishing period, with a corn-soybean meal diet fed as a control. Seventy barrows and 70 gilts were allotted into seven treatment groups with four pens per group. Analysis was on 28 experimental units, which were composite samples from pens. The significance of treatment, sex, and treatment x sex interaction F-statistics was evaluated on chloroform-methanol extractable total lipid, triacylglycerol, phospholipids, cholesterol, individually fatty acids (FA), and the major classes of FA obtained from longissimus muscle and bacon. Treatment effects (P less than .05) were detected for cholesterol content of longissimus and for total lipid and phospholipid content of bacon. Treatment effects (P less than .01) were detected for monoenoic, dienoic, and polyenoic (P) FA in both tissues, and for saturated (S) FA in bacon (P less than .05). Treatment effects (P less than .001) were detected in both tissues for the P:S ratio. The P:S ratio increased 54% for longissimus and 100% for bacon in the pigs fed FFS for 6 wk compared with pigs consuming a corn-soybean meal diet.

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Fetal hypophysectomy causes a decrease in preadipocyte growth and insulin like growth factor-1 in pigs.

Fetal pigs in one uterine horn of each of five gilts were hypophysectomized (HX) in utero by electrical cauterization at 72-74 days of gestation and sera collected at 110 days of gestation. Sera from HX fetuses had lower levels of insulin-like growth factor-1 compared to control littermates (P less than .05). Sera were tested for their effects on primary cultures of stromal-vascular cells from adipose tissue. The soluble protein concentration/dish was lower when pig cells were cultured in sera from HX fetuses compared to sera from control fetuses (P less than .01). Sera from HX fetuses inadequately supported growth of stromal-vascular cells so subsequent experiments utilized pooled sera from normal and HX adult pigs. Sera from HX and control fetuses were mixed with sera from the two adult pools and tested for incorporation of tritiated thymidine into rat preadipocytes and the appearance of adipocytes (determined histochemically) in pig stromal-vascular cultures. In cultures fed sera from HX fetuses there was a lower (P less than .05) number of pig fat cells/culture and a lower level (P less than .06) of preadipocyte proliferation in rat cell cultures when compared to control fetal sera. Fetal pig serum contains factors (adipogenic) which promote the proliferation and differentiation of adipocytes in culture. Serum from HX fetuses has a lower level of adipogenic factors.

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Effect of sera from control and overfed rats on preadipocyte growth in culture.

Increased body lipid was induced in 4-wk-old rats through oral gavage. Rats were either fed ad libitum, tube-fed 100% or tube-fed 150% of the ad libitum intake. After 1 wk of tube-feeding animals were killed and sera collected. Sera were used to support the growth of rat stromal-vascular cells in culture. Sera were also analyzed for growth hormone and insulin concentrations. In rats that were tube-fed, levels of adiposity were greater but sera from these rats decreased stromal-vascular and preadipocyte proliferation in culture when compared with sera from ad libitum-fed rats. Sera from tube-fed animals promoted an increase in preadipocyte differentiation as revealed by esterase staining. Results indicate that overfeeding in juvenile rats causes sera changes that support fat cell differentiation but not fat cell hyperplasia.

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Sera from pigs infected with Sarcocystis suicanis and cachectin decrease preadipocyte differentiation in primary cell culture.

The macrophage-secreted hormone cachectin depressed lipoprotein lipase activity and lipogenic enzymes in adipose cells. Cachectin reduced differentiation of preadipocytes in cultures of stromal-vascular cells from rat adipose tissue. Differentiation was measured by two methods of estimating lipid accumulation. Adipocytes were separated from the stromal-vascular cells by centrifugation and staining (oil red 0) for intracellular lipid. Lipolytic activity was measured by using esterase histochemistry. Sera from pigs that were infected with Sarcocystis suicanis showed cachectin-like activity compared with sera collected from the same animals before infection. Cachectin and sera collected from infected animals specifically decreased fat cell number without decreasing the stromal-vascular cell number.

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The effect of insulin on primary cultures of rat preadipocytes grown in fetal or postnatal pig serum.

Stromal vascular cell cultures, prepared from the inguinal pads of 50-g Sprague Dawley rats, were exposed to media with 10% fetal pig serum which is inherently low in insulin, for the first 3 to 5 d of culture. Insulin was supplemented to media for periods of 2 to 6 d. In cultures treated (2 to 4 d) with 10(-9), to 10(-10) or 10(-11) M insulin, differentiated cells (lipid and esterase staining) appeared 1.5 to 2 times wider than differentiated cells in control cultures. At 10(-9) M insulin (4 to 5 d), in cultures grown in the presence of fetal pig serum the number of esterase reactive cells was increased twofold to threefold. The percentage of total cells that were esterase reactive was elevated 50 to 300% relative to control cultures. Insulin-treated preadipocytes were more reactive for lipoprotein lipase activity (histochemical assay) compared with reactivity of control cells. Quantitative analysis of percentage of light transmittance (Zeiss photometer) through stained cells indicated an increase (P less than .001) in lipoprotein lipase staining at 10(-9), 10(-11) and 10(-13) M insulin (2 d). The specific activity of glycerol phosphate dehydrogenase was elevated twofold to threefold (P less than .05) and soluble protein elevated 50 to 100% (P less than .05) in cultures treated (3 to 6 d) with 10(-9) M insulin. Decreasing the cell plating density (50%) in cultures grown in the presence of pig serum reduced the elevation in enzyme activity induced by insulin in preadipocyte cultures. Physiological levels of insulin enhanced lipogenic enzyme activity in preadipocytes and may enhance the conversion of stromal cells to preadipocytes.

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Sera-controlled preadipocyte growth in culture: an ontogeny study with sera from lean and obese pigs.

Genetically lean and obese swine were used to investigate the control of preadipocyte growth in culture by porcine serum. Sera were collected from fetuses from obese and lean strains at 70, 90 and 110 d of gestation. Postnatal serum samples were collected from both lines of pigs at 23 to 27 kg. Rat preadipocytes were isolated and grown in culture. Preadipocyte and stromal-vascular cell proliferation was greater in cultures grown in sera obtained postnatally than in cultures grown in sera from fetuses. Sera from lean and obese fetuses were equipotent in promoting cell proliferation. Glycerol-phosphate dehydrogenase (GPDH) activity was higher in cultures fed serum from obese pigs and fetuses than in cultures fed serum from lean pigs and fetuses. Cultures grown in serum from obese fetuses and pigs had soluble protein levels similar to cultures grown with serum from lean pigs and fetuses. These results demonstrate that serum from genetically obese swine, in the pre-obese (fetal) and obese (postnatal) state, caused increased adipogenic activity in adipocytes in culture.

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