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375 Effects of Nutritional Level on Digestive Enzyme Activities in the Pancreas and Small Intestine of Calves Slaughtered at Same Body We坷ht X. B. Wang, T. Ogawa, S. Suda, K. Taniguchi1, H. Uike2, H. Kumagai2 and K. Mitani Faculty of Applied Biological Science, Hiroshima University, Higashi-hiroshima 739, Japan ABSTRACT : Six Holstein heifer calves weaned at 45 whole pancreas were higher (p < 0.05) in HDG calves. dayspBa응 e were randomly allocated into high daily gain Disaccharidase activity of the whole small intestinal (1.1 kg/d, HDG) and low daily gain (0.56 kg/d, LDG) mucosa was also higher (p < 0.10) for HDG than for groups, and were slaughtered at 170 kg of live weight. LDG calves. However, the enzymatic activities, expressed Energy intake level in the feeding period was 2.4 x as per gram or per protein of the pancreas and the small maintenance in 105 days for HDG and 1.4 x main intestinal mucosa, were not affected (p > 0.10) by the tenance in 216 days for LDG calves. Total length of the plane of nutrition. These results suggest that the digestive small intestine was identical between groups, but both enzyme activity in the small intestine varies primarily weights of the pancreas and of the small intestinal with the weight of tissues synthesizing the enzyme. mucosa were greater (p < 0.01) for HDG calves. Alpha (Key Words: Nutritional Level, Digestive Enzyme, Calf) amylase, lipase, proteinase, and trypsin activities of the INTRODUCTION MATERIALS AND METHODS Ruminant digestion is characterized by microbial Animals and management fermentation in the rumen, the first chamber of the Six Holstein heifer calves weaned at 45 days-of-age stomach and main digestive site. However, digestion by (average live weight, 52 kg) were randomly allocated into host enzymes in the lumen of the small intestine is also a high daily gain group (HDG) or low daily gain group indispensable for nutrient utilization. The enzymes related (LDG), each comprising three calves. HDG calves had to the latter digestion originate in the pancreas and the access to concentrate and Italian ryegrass hay ad libitum. mucosa of the small intestine. And while the influence The same diet at the same ratio (concentrate : hay) was of diet on the activities of these enzymes has been fed to LDG calves, but in a quantity allowing only half widely investigated in monogastric animals, it has only the body-weight gain of HDG calves. LDG calves were rarely been examined in ruminants (Harmon, 1992b). weighed weekly to adjust their feed supply. All calves Kreikemeier et al. (1990) slaughtered steers of different were housed in individual calf hatches with free access to body weights and found that enzymatic activity in their fresh water, and were fed in two equal installments at small intestines was affected by energy consumption level 09:00 and 17:00. The concentrate was purchased com via weight changes in the tissues responsible for enzyme mercially, and had a stated proportion of ingredients as synthesis. However, as the tissue weight may vary with follows: 50% grains, 35% protein supplements, and 15% both energy consumption level and body weight, the mineral supplements and other by-products. Crude protein direct influence of energy intake on enzymatic activity is in dry matter was 22.7% in the concentrate and 10.6% in unclear. In this study, therefore, calves were fed a high or hay. The whole mixed diet contained 71% of TDN, in air low energy-level diet and slaughtered at the same body dry matter, which was measured by a direct digestion trial weight prior to examination of the enzymatic activity and immediately before slaughter. The maintenance energy tissue weights of the pancreas and samll intestinal mucosa. requirements of calves were as listed in the Japanese Feeding Standard (Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Research Council Secretariat, 1987). 1 Address reprint requests to K. Taniguchi. 2 Graduate Course of International Cooperation, Higashi- hiroshima 739, Japan. Received December 4, 1997; Accepted February 19, 1998 AJAS 1998 Vol. 11 (No. 4) 375-380 376 WANG ET AL. Slaughter and tissue collection by the methods of Kreikemeier et al. (1990) and All calves were slaughtered at approximately 170 kg Bergmeyer et al. (1974). One unit of disaccharidase of live weight by bleeding under general anesthesia with activity was defined as that which hydrolysed one “mol sodium pentobarbital injection after 2 hours of diet disaccharide per min at 37*C. The protein content of the deprivation. Evisceration was performed within appro homogenates was assayed by the method of Lowry et al. ximately 20 min after slaughter. The alimentary tracts (1951). were removed and the weights of tracts and remaining A t-test was used to test the difference in enzyme digesta recorded. After the total length of the small activities of the pancreatic and small intestinal mucosa intestine was measured, ten 30-cm segments were taken between each treatment. The effect of the treatment on from the sites at 5, 15, 25, 35, 45, 55, 65, 75, 85, and the distribution pattern of disaccharidase activity along the 95% of the total length. Small intestine and the whole small intestine was analysed by the method of split plot pancreas samples were placed in plastic bags, chilled on analysis using SASD (1990). Inter-treatment dififerences ice, and immediately transported to the laboratory fbr among intestinal site were a nalyzed by t-test. P value further preparation. v 0.10 were considered significant. Sample preparation RESULTS The pancreas was trimmed of excess fat and debris, then weighed and diced. Two grams of pancreatic tissue Mean body weight at slaughter was 172 and 165 kg were combined with 20 ml of cold 0.9% NaCl solution in fbr HDG and LDG, respectively. HDG calves consumed a 50 ml plastic test tube and homogenized by a more concentrate and hay, and showed twice the daily homogenizer (Nihon Seiki Kogyo Co., Tokyo) for 45 s. body-weight gain of LDG calves throughout the feeding The resulting homogenate was centrifuged at 1,300 x g period (table 1). Mean daily intake of TDN was 2.64 kg fbr 10 min. Supernatant of the homogenate was stored at fbr HDG and 1.54 kg fbr LDG calves. LDG calves thus —20*C until determination of a -amylase, lipase, trypsin, required twice as many days to reach the target live chymotrypsin, and proteinase activities. weight. Small intestine were trimmed of excess fat, cut longitudinally, and their mucosa wete rinsed with saline. Table 1. Feed intake and performance of calves After removing excess saline with a piece of filter paper, mucosa were scraped from the small intestine using a Calves Item ------------------------ SEM P glass microscope slide. The scraped mucosa was weighed, HDG1 LDG2 and two grams were combined with 20 ml of cold 0.9% Feed intake3 (kg/d) NaCl solution and homogenized in the same manner used Concentrate 3.45 1.99 0.47 v 0.001 for pancreatic samples. Samples were maintained under Italian ryegrass hay 0.26 0.18 0.03 v 0.004 cold temperature throughout the preparation. Mucosa Total 3.71 2.17 0.50 v 0.001 from each small intestinal site was used to assay fbr Energy level4 2.4 M 1.4 M 0.24 v 0.001 maltase, isomaltase, and lactase activities. Daily gain (kg) 1.09 0.56 0.06 v 0.001 Feeding period (d) 105 216 25 v 0.001 Analyses 1 High Daily Gain. Pancreatic zymogen was activated by enterokinase (E- 2 Low Daily Gain. 5510, Sigma Chemical Co. St. Louis. USA) at 30〔C for 20 3 Mean daily intake. min in 15 mmol/L Tris buffer (pH 8.1). Trypsin and 4 Times of maintenance energy requirement to the mean body chymotrypsin activities were determined photometrically weight for the whole period. using Na-p-toluenesulfbnyl-L-arginine methyl ester (Rick, 1974a) and N-benzoyl-L-tyrosine ethyl ester (Rick, 1974b), The fresh weights of alimentary tracts and digesta are respectively. Proteinase was assayed by the method of shown in table 2. Weights of the tissue of the liver, reticulo- Iwasiro et al. (1992). Alpha-amylase activity in the rumen, omasum-abomasum, and small and laige intestine pancreas was measured by the method of Hall et al. (1970) were greater in HDG calves. Weight of the digesta of the using Starch Azure (S-7776, Sigma Chemical Co.) as small intestine was greater in HDG calves, but that of the substrate. Lipase activity was measured by the method of large intestine was greater in LDG calves. Weights of the Whitaker (1973) using a -naphthyl palmitate as substrate. digesta of the reticulo-rumen and the omasum - abomasum Maltase, isomaltase, and lactase activities were measured were not affected by the nutritional level. DIGESTIVE ENZYME ACTIVITY OF CALVES 377 Table 2. Fresh weights of tissue and digesta of The weight of the pancreas was greater in HDG alimentary tract of calves fed at different nutritional plane calves, but the difference in protein content was not Calves significant (table 3). Enzyme activities, expressed per Item SEM P gram or per protein content, did not differ between HDG HDG1 LDG2 and LDG calves. When enzyme activity was expressed as Tissue weight per body weight (g/kg) total pancreatic activity, however, a -amylase, lipase, Reticulo - rumen 21.5 16.6 0.4 0.041 trypsin, and proteinase activities were greater in HDG Omasum and 9.6 7.8 0.6 0.060 calves. Chymotrypsin also tended to be greater (p < 0.14) abomasum Small intestine 22.3 13.4 2.1 0.002 in HDG calves.