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Measures of De Novo Synthesis of Milk Components from Propionate in Lactating Goats

Department of Animal Science, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6G 2P5

ABSTRACT

Possible direct contributions of propionate to de novo synthesis of milk components by the mammary gland of lactating goats fed a concentrate-roughage diet have been studied in vivo by primed constant infusion of [1-carbon-14) propionate into the right mammary artery. Specific radioactivities of milk galactose, fatty acids, and protein were higher in the infused than in the uninfused half of the mammary gland, suggesting de novo synthesis of these compounds in the udder. Specific radioactivities of milk glucose in both udder halves were identical, ruling out any possibility of mammary gland-derived glucose from propionate of blood plasma under the experimental conditions. Of milk galactose, .8% was derived from propionate of blood plasma, and of milk glucose, 98% was derived from glucose of blood plasma. After intraruminal infusion of unlabeled propionic acid at 11 g/h, concentration of propionate in blood plasma was doubled, its contribution to milk galactose was increased to 1.5%, and proportions of milk odd-numbered fatty acids were increased. Propionate was incorporated largely into milk odd- numbered fatty acids (9:0, 11:0, 13:0, 15:0, 17:0). We conclude that small amounts of propionate can be incorporated into principal components of milk in the mammary gland of lactating goats.

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