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Department of Dairy Science, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois 61801
Five lactating, rumen-fistulated Holstein cows were used to obtain additional information concerning the effects of postruminal infusion of sodium caseinate on milk production and amino acid utilization. A 7-day continuous abomasal infusion of approximately 450 g/day of sodium caseinate was preceded and followed by 7-day infusions of an isonitrogenous-isocaloric solution of glucose, monosodium glutamate, and urea. Total collections of milk, urine, and feces were obtained during the last 5 days of each infusion period. On the last day of each period, arterial and mammary venous blood samples were obtained for analysis of plasma free amino acids. During infusion of sodium caseinate, milk production, milk protein (N x 6.38) production, and efficiency of nitrogen utilization for milk crude protein production were increased. Arterial plasma concentrations of free histidine, isoleucine, phenylalanine, valine, and total essential amino acids were elevated above control levels during infusion of sodium caseinate, while ornithine and tyrosine were decreased. Calculation of the relative concentration of essential amino acids in arterial plasma and in milk protein indicated that methionine and lysine were least abundant in plasma relative to their requirement for milk protein synthesis. A high percentage extraction from arterial plasma by the mammary gland also suggested that methionine and lysine may have been the essential amino acids in most critical supply for milk protein synthesis. Calculation of uptake to output ratios of individual plasma amino acids by the mammary gland suggested that significant quantities of extracted arginine, isoleucine, leucine, threonine, and valine were utilized in pathways other than direct incorporation into milk protein.
KEY WORDS: • amino acid metabolism • nitrogen metabolism • dairy cattle nutrition • bovine mammary gland
1 Supported in part by the Illinois Agricultural Experiment Station.
Manuscript received 13 December 1974.
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