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Nutritional Physiology Group, Department of Animal Science, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011
Nine preruminant male calves were prepared surgically with lymphatico-venous shunts and/or re-entrant gallbladder to proximal duodenum shunts to evaluate the effects of degree of saturation of dietary fat on cholesterol transport in intestinal lymph and bile. Liquid diets were formulated to contain 12.5% dried skim milk (SM) or 10.5% SM to which 2% soybean oil (SBO), milk fat (MF), beef tallow (T) or one of these fats plus supplemental cholesterol was added. After 3-d dietary treatments, total lymph collections were made to determine flow rate, total lipid and cholesterol transport. Total bile collections were made to determine flow rate and cholesterol and bile acid transport. For SM, SBO, MF and T diets, respectively, average lipid transport in mesenteric lymph was 8.94, 32.58, 64.86 and 38.12 mg/(h · kg body weight), and cholesterol transport averaged 1.09, 1.92, 2.41 and 2.70 mg/(h · kg body weight). Lipid and cholesterol transport in lymph was less (P < 0.05) in SM-fed calves than in fat-fed calves. Source of fat or supplemental cholesterol had no statistically significant effect on amount of cholesterol or bile acid transported in bile; however, calves fed SM transported greater quantities of cholesterol in bile than did calves fed fat or fat plus cholesterol.
KEY WORDS: cholesterol lymph bile fat calf
1 Journal paper no. J-11360 of the Iowa Agriculture and Home Economics Experiment Station, Ames, IA, Project No. 2505.
2 This research was supported by the Science and Education Administration of the U.S. Department of Agriculture under Grant No. 2338 from the Competitive Research Grants Office.
3 A portion of these data was presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Dairy Science Association, 1982, University Park, PA. J. Dairy Sci. 65 (Suppl. 1), 196 (abs. P273).
4 Author to whom reprint requests should be addressed.
Manuscript received 5 May 1984.