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(Journal of Nutrition. 1999;129:2043-2047.)
© 1999 The American Society for Nutritional Sciences

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Dietary Potassium Bicarbonate and Potassium Citrate Have a Greater Inhibitory Effect than Does Potassium Chloride on Magnesium Absorption in Wethers

J. Th. Schonewille2, A. C. Beynen, A. Th. Van't Klooster, H. Wouterse and L. Ram

Department of Nutrition, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Utrecht University, 3508 TD Utrecht, The Netherlands

2To whom correspondence and reprint requests should be addressed.

We addressed the question whether the type of anion in potassium salts affects magnesium absorption and the transmural potential difference by using wethers (n = 8) fed a control diet and diets supplemented with equimolar amounts of KHCO3, KCl or K-citrate according to a Latin-square design. The control diet contained 10.9 g K/kg dry matter and the high K diets contained 41.3 g K/kg dry matter. Compared with the control diet, KHCO3 and K-citrate significantly reduced apparent Mg absorption by 9.5 and 6.5%, respectively. Supplemental KCl tended to reduce (P = 0.070) group mean magnesium absorption by 5.5%. Consumption of supplemental KHCO3 and K-citrate produced a significant increase in the transmural potential difference (serosal side = positive) by 17.1 and 20.7 mV, respectively, whereas the addition of KCl to the diet did not. The individual values for the four diets tended to show a negative correlation (r = -0.336, n = 32, P = 0.060) between the transmural potential difference and apparent magnesium absorption. We conclude that different potassium salts have different effects on magnesium absorption in ruminants as caused by different effects on the transmural potential difference.

KEY WORDS: • magnesium absorption • wethers • potassium • potential difference




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