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Journal of Nutrition Vol. 94 No. 3 March 1968, pp. 282-288
Copyright © 1968 by American Society for Nutrition
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Metabolism of Radioactive Cesium (134Cs and 137Cs) and Potassium by Dairy Cattle as Influenced by High and Low Forage Diets1,2,

James E. Johnson3, Gerald M. Ward, Estes Firestone and Kirvin L. Knox

Department of Animal Science, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado

A feeding trial was conducted with 10 lactating Holstein cows to determine the excretion patterns of fallout 137Cs and potassium in milk, urine and feces as affected by a high hay (80%) or high grain (80%) ration. It was found that 137Cs was excreted principally via the feces as compared with potassium which was largely excreted in the urine. Tracer doses of soluble 134Cs were transferred to milk and urine to a greater extent than fallout 137Cs. A marked decrease in absorption was noted when the dose was administered with a high hay ration as compared with a high grain ration, which was apparently due to adsorption by fibrous components of the ration. The mean transfer coefficients of fallout 137Cs to milk (pCi per liter/total daily intake in pCi) were 0.48 for the high hay and 1.21 for the high grain ration. Tracer doses of 134Cs showed transfer coefficients of 0.92 and 1.36 when added to the same rations. Differences in absorption of potassium and 137Cs as judged by transfer to milk and urine could be explained on the basis of a lower absorption of 137Cs due to its physical form in fallout contaminated forages.

1 Published with the approval of the Director of the Colorado Agricultural Experiment Station as Scientific Series Paper no. 1235.

2 Published as AEC Report no. COO-1171-53.

3 Present Address: Harvard Medical School, Department of Surgery Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.

Manuscript received 21 October 1967.




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