Nutrient requirements.

2021 ◽  
pp. 95-110
Author(s):  
Gordon McL. Dryden
Keyword(s):  
Amino Acids ◽  
Nutrient Requirements ◽  
Physiological Processes ◽  
Protein Energy

Abstract This chapter describes how animals use protein, energy, amino acids, vitamins, minerals and other nutrients and their requirements for these nutrients for physiological processes and production responses.

THE DIGESTIBILITY BY PIGS OF DRY MATTER, ENERGY, PROTEIN AND AMINO ACIDS IN WHEAT CULTIVARS. II. FIFTEEN CULTIVARS GROWN IN TWO YEARS, COMPARED WITH BONANZA AND FERGUS BARLEYS, AND 3CW-GRADE HARD RED SPRING WHEAT

1983 ◽  
Vol 63 (2) ◽  
pp. 393-406 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. M. ANDERSON ◽  
J. M. BELL
Keyword(s):  
Amino Acids ◽  
Crude Protein ◽  
Frost Damage ◽  
Cultivar Differences ◽  
Wheat Cultivars ◽  
Hordeum Vulgare L ◽  
Triticum Vulgare ◽  
Barley Cultivars ◽  
Protein Energy ◽  
Available Lysine

Fifteen wheat cultivars (Triticum vulgare L.) and two barley cultivars (Hordeum vulgare L.), some grown in two or three different years, were evaluated in two digestion trials with pigs of 40 kg initial weight. Some samples had frost damage. Each cultivar was measured for bulk weight (kg/hL), weight in g/1000 kernels, kernel plumpness and percent germination. The grains and feces were analyzed for gross energy, crude protein and amino acids. The diets comprised 95.7% ground grain, 0.5% chromic oxide, and mineral and vitamin supplements. Crude protein (N × 6.25) ranged from 11.1 to 19.7%. In terms of digestibility of energy, digestibility of protein, content of digestible crude protein (DCP), available lysine and digestible energy (DE), the wheat cultivars Inia-66 and Neepawa ranked highest, followed by Norquay, then Glenlea, Pitic-62 and PFW606A. Within cultivar, year-to-year differences were observed as well as some effects of frost damage. Cultivar differences in DE were found but DCP and available lysine were identified as the most important nutritional criteria for wheat to be used as the major grain in the animal diet. Environmental conditions affecting crop growth and seed maturity may be as important as genetic differences between cultivars in regard to nutritional quality evaluations as measured in these trials.Key words: Digestibility, wheat, protein, energy, amino acids, pigs

A study on apparent digestibility coefficients of dry matter, protein, energy and amino acids for untreated and fermented guar meal in Penaeus indicus (Edwards, 1837) and Penaeus monodon (Fabricus, 1798)

2020 ◽  
Vol 51 (5) ◽  
pp. 2155-2159
Author(s):  
Rajabdeen Jannathulla ◽  
Rajarajan Yuvapushpa ◽  
Eugine Amala Claret ◽  
Gopalapillai Gopikrishna ◽  
Kondusamy Ambasankar ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Amino Acids ◽  
Dry Matter ◽  
Penaeus Monodon ◽  
Apparent Digestibility ◽  
Protein Energy ◽  
Guar Meal ◽  
Penaeus Indicus

Catabolism and synthesis of amino acids in skeletal muscle: their significance in monogastric mammals and ruminants

1993 ◽  
Vol 44 (3) ◽  
pp. 443 ◽  
Author(s):  
E Teleni
Keyword(s):  
Skeletal Muscle ◽  
Amino Acids ◽  
Significant Activity ◽  
Acid Base Balance ◽  
Carbon And Nitrogen ◽  
Specific Effects ◽  
Protein Energy ◽  
Base Balance ◽  
Lower Carbon

The enhanced rate of synthesis and catabolism of amino acids in, and their release from, skeletal muscle, particularly during fasting, exercise and metabolic acidosis, highlight the integrative role of muscle in protein-energy metabolism. This review discusses aspects of such changes in muscles of monogastric mammals and ruminants. The glucose-alanine cycle, as it was originally proposed, has been well substantiated by studies using human and rat muscles. An alternative proposal, which suggested that other amino acids make a major contribution to the carbon skeleton of alanine synthesized in muscle, is less convincing, since some of the inhibitors and substrates used in relevant studies have been demonstrated to have multiple rather than specific effects. In the ruminant, the glucose-alanine cycle is quantitatively less significant than in human. The probable reason for this difference is the limited available pyruvate in ruminant muscle for transamination to alanine. This may be due to a lower carbon flux through the glycolytic pathway and/or to significant activity of the anaplerotic enzyme, pyruvate carboxylase. It is suggested that glutamine is the more important carrier of carbon and nitrogen out of skeletal muscle and that alanine may serve only as an ancillary vehicle to transport carbon and nitrogen when the availability of pyruvate for transamination in muscle is high. The more diverse role of glutamine (cf. alanine) in acid-base balance, as a respiratory fuel in the cells of the immune system and the epithelia of the small intestine, where it may also be converted to alanine for subsequent gluconeogenesis in the liver, is consistent with this suggestion.

Effects of xylanase and antibiotic addition on ileal and faecal apparent digestibilities of dietary nutrients and evaluating HCl-insoluble ash as a dietary marker in growing pigs

2001 ◽  
Vol 72 (1) ◽  
pp. 95-103 ◽  
Author(s):  
Y.-L. Yin ◽  
J.D. McEvoy ◽  
H. Schulze ◽  
K.J. McCracken
Keyword(s):  
Amino Acids ◽  
Crude Protein ◽  
Dry Matter ◽  
Growing Pigs ◽  
Ileal Digestibility ◽  
Neutral Detergent Fibre ◽  
Protein Energy ◽  
Dietary Nutrients

AbstractThe effects of xylanase and antibiotic addition to the diet, and the use of HCl-insoluble ash as a marker, on ileal and faecal apparent digestibilities of nutrients were studied with 12 growing pigs fitted with post-valvular T-caecum cannulae (PVTC). The results showed that the apparent ileal digestibility of non-starch polysaccharide (NSP) was high, (over 0·30). Xylanase, or antibiotics (Avoparcin) or xylanase plus antibiotics supplementation of the wheat middling-based diets did not significantly (P > 0·05) increase the ileal and faecal apparent digestibilities of NSP, neutral-detergent fibre (NDF), dry matter, crude protein, energy or amino acids. There were no significant (P > 0·05) differences between the HCl-insoluble ash and Cr2O3 recoveries at the ileal or at the faecal levels: proportionately, 0·864 and 0·911 for the ileal and faecal recoveries of HCl-insoluble ash, and 0·857 and 0. 915 for the ileal and faecal recoveries of Cr2O3, respectively.

scholarly journals Peritoneal Protein Losses and Cytokine Generation in Automated Peritoneal Dialysis with Combined Amino Acids and Glucose Solutions

2007 ◽  
Vol 2007 ◽  
pp. 1-5 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. L. Tjiong ◽  
F. J. Zijlstra ◽  
T. Rietveld ◽  
J. L. Wattimena ◽  
J. G. M. Huijmans ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Amino Acids ◽  
Peritoneal Dialysis ◽  
Protein Energy Malnutrition ◽  
Automated Peritoneal Dialysis ◽  
Necrosis Factor Alpha ◽  
Protein Energy ◽  
Factor Alpha ◽  
Dialysis Solutions ◽  
Control Protein ◽  
Necrosis Factor

Objectives. Protein-energy malnutrition as a consequence of deficient protein intake frequently occurs in peritoneal dialysis (PD) patients. Previously, we showed that peritoneal dialysate containing a mixture of amino acids (AA) and glucose has anabolic effects. However AA-dialysate has been reported to increase intraperitoneal protein and AA losses and the release of proinflammatory cytokines (interleukine-6 (IL-6) and tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNFα)). We investigated the effect of AA plus glucose (AAG) solutions on peritoneal protein losses and cytokine generation.Methods. In 6 patients on standard automated peritoneal dialysis (APD) 12 APD sessions of 6 cycles each were performed during the night using dialysate containing 1.1% AA plus glucose or glucose alone as control. Protein losses and TNFαand IL-6 concentrations were measured in dialysates separately collected from nightly cycling and daytime dwell.Results. The 24 hour-protein losses with AAG (median 6.7 g, range 4.7–9.4 g) were similar to control dialysate (median 6.0 g, range 4.2–9.2 g). Daytime dialysate IL-6 levels were higher after nightly AAG dialysis than after control dialysis (142 pg/ml and 82 pg/ml, respectively,P<.05). TNFαconcentrations were very low.Conclusion. Nightly APD with amino acids containing dialysate was associated with an increase in peritoneal IL-6 generation during the day. The addition of AA to standard glucose dialysis solutions did not induce a significant increase of peritoneal protein losses.

scholarly journals d-amino Acids in Health and Disease: A Focus on Cancer

Nutrients ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (9) ◽  
pp. 2205 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacco J.A.J. Bastings ◽  
Hans M. van Eijk ◽  
Steven W. Olde Damink ◽  
Sander S. Rensen
Keyword(s):  
Amino Acids ◽  
Human Physiology ◽  
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis ◽  
Human Body ◽  
Physiological Processes ◽  
Gut Barrier Function ◽  
Age Related ◽  
Health And Disease ◽  
Living Organisms ◽  
Lateral Sclerosis

d-amino acids, the enantiomeric counterparts of l-amino acids, were long considered to be non-functional or not even present in living organisms. Nowadays, d-amino acids are acknowledged to play important roles in numerous physiological processes in the human body. The most commonly studied link between d-amino acids and human physiology concerns the contribution of d-serine and d-aspartate to neurotransmission. These d-amino acids and several others have also been implicated in regulating innate immunity and gut barrier function. Importantly, the presence of certain d-amino acids in the human body has been linked to several diseases including schizophrenia, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, and age-related disorders such as cataract and atherosclerosis. Furthermore, increasing evidence supports a role for d-amino acids in the development, pathophysiology, and treatment of cancer. In this review, we aim to provide an overview of the various sources of d-amino acids, their metabolism, as well as their contribution to physiological processes and diseases in man, with a focus on cancer.

The utilization of dietary protein by Nigerian men

1976 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 337-351 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. M. Nicol ◽  
P. G. Phillips
Keyword(s):  
Low Income ◽  
Income Group ◽  
Mean Values ◽  
Protein Requirements ◽  
Safe Level ◽  
Physiological Processes ◽  
Protein Energy ◽  
Nigerian Men ◽  
Faecal Nitrogen ◽  
Energy Ratios

1. The excretion of urinary and faecal nitrogen by young Nigerian men of a low income group was found to vary significantly between subjects, but was not significantly different in the same subject, when they were given a mixed diet composed of rice, vegetables and fish on two separate occasions. At the levels of energy and protein supplied by this diet the men gained or lost small amounts of weight, mean values indicating N equilibrium, the variation around the mean being high.2. The correlation between the urinary and faecal N of these men was significantly negative at and below the level of N equilibrium, becoming positive 2–3 weeks after they had consumed the above diet supplemented by 400 g of lean beef per day, and had already established considerable rates of gain in body-weight and N retention. The diets were made isoenergetic by adding the beef at the expense of cassava flour and red palm oil.3. The physiological processes involved in the adaptation, by young Nigerian men of low income, to a highly efficient use of low-protein diets are discussed in relation to the biological value and true digestibility of those diets, and to the ‘safe level of protein intake’ and protein-energy ratios proposed by FAO/WHO (1973, 1975).4. It is concluded that the protein requirements of apparently healthy men can only be established in the context of their ecological, socio-economic and nutritional backgrounds.

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