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Journal of Dairy Science Vol. 73 No. 3 772-783
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Regulation of Bovine Adipose Tissue Metabolism During Lactation. 6. Cellularity and Hormone-Sensitive Lipase Activity as Affected by Genetic Merit and Energy Intake

T. H. Smith 1 and J. P. McNamara 1

1 Department of Animal Sciences, Washington State University, Pullman 99164-6320

Subcutaneous adipose tissue cell size and density and hormone-sensitive lipase activity were determined during late pregnancy and first lactation in Holstein heifers. Animals were daughters of bulls with either +791 (high line) or +390 (low line) kg Predicted Difference (1974 base) for milk. Each line consumed either a 71%: 29% (high energy) or a 36%:63% (low energy) barley concentrate and alfalfa hay diet from 0 to 140 d lactation. Heifers fed the low energy ration ate 33% less NE1 and produced 20% less milk with 52.7% greater milk fat percentage during 28 to 140 d of lactation than heifers fed the high energy ration. Prepartum, animals of the high line had similar adipocyte volume and density to low line animals. However, during early lactation, high line animals had a greater decrease in volume and a larger increase in density than low line animals. There was a delayed recovery of volume in high line, compared with low line animals in late lactation. Adipocyte volume also was decreased by dietary energy restriction. Hormone-sensitive lipase activity was similar in both genetic lines prepartum and increased in all groups at 60 d postpartum. Animals of high line or fed low energy rations had increased activity per gram during early, but not later, lactation. Activity per cell and per milligram cytoplasm protein increased in all groups in early lactation and were highest in high line animals fed the low energy ration.

Key Words: adipose tissue • cellularity • hormone-sensitive lipase • genetic merit

Submitted on May 1, 1989
Accepted on August 7, 1989




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