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M Meinl

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[Protein digestibility and the absorption of amino acids in various segments of the digestive tract of pigs. 3. Results of the fractionation of ileum chyme after feeding various rations].

Growing female pigs provided with re-entrant ileum resp. ileocecal cannulae received 6 different rations (fattening feed I and II for pigs, rations with dried skim milk, wheat gluten + lysine resp. wheat + wheat gluten + lysine, N-free mixture). The ileum chyme was separated into the fractions supernatant 1 and sediment 1 and by a treatment of supernatant 1 with trichloracetic acid and subsequent centrifuging into supernatant 2 and sediment 2. In the complete chyme as well as in all fractions the crude protein and amino acid contents were determined. The distribution in per cent of the crude protein and the amino acids over the fractions was calculated as well. The influence of the rations, in particular rations of dried skim milk, on the amino acid pattern of the complete chyme and the chyme fractions could be established. An influence of the rations could not be recognised on sediment 2 only, which indicates a uniform amino acid pattern of these probably endogenous proteins. The percentage of crude protein and amino acids in the fractions was also influenced by the rations.

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[Protein digestibility and the absorption of amino acids in various segments of the digestive tract of pigs. 4. Digestibility of crude protein and amino acids and rate of passage through the duodenum and ileum and the total digestive tract of growing pigs].

The crude protein digestibility and the amino acid absorption of six female pigs (average live weight 61 kg) with duodenal and ileocecal re-entrant cannulae, which were fed with a wheat + wheat gluten + lysine ration and an N-free ration, were determined in various segments of the intestines. Comparative experiments concerning the N-metabolism with pigs without and with cannulae showed that the animals renormalised their metabolism 14 days after narcosis and fistulation of the intestines. The extents of secretion and absorption of the various amino acids vary as it is shown from the values of the apparent and true digestibility resp. rate of passage through various segments of the intestines. While for methionine and glutamic acid absorption exceeds endogenous secretion already in the duodenum, the amino acids with a high endogenous quota (glycine, alanine, threonine, tryptophan) are, even at the terminal ileum, not as well absorbed as the others. Methionine is obviously synthesised on a large scale by the colon flora and excreted in feces. The fractionation of the duodenal and ileum chyme after feeding wheat + wheat gluten + lysine as well as N-free mixture, into the fractions "solid particles", "peptides-free amino acids" and "proteines precipitable by trichlor-acetic acid" supplies information on the degree of protein degradation in various segments of the intestines.

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[Effect of thermal treatment of potato products on nutrient decomposition in the digestive tract of swine. 2. Nutrient content and bacterial activity in various parts of the intestine].

Dry matter (DM), starch, crude protein (CP), amino acids (AA) and diaminopimelic acid (DAPA) were estimated in the contents of the digestive tract of slaughtered pigs, which were fed a basal diet with raw (rKSt) or with cooked (QuSt) potato starch. When fed rKSt, there was larger quantities of starch and DAPA in the content of the distal small intestine and also of DM, CP, AA and DAPA in the contents of caecum and proximal colon, compared to QuSt. The bacterial breakdown of the raw potato starch granules in the proximal large intestine is shown by microscopic examinations. It is suggested, that the quantity of bacterial protein excreted in the faeces did not allow to quantify the extent of the bacterial activity in the different segments of the digestive tract.

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