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The use of intragastric nutrition to study saliva secretion and the relationship between rumen osmotic pressure and water transport

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 March 2007

G. Y. Zhao ,
M. Durić ,
N. A. Macleod ,
E. R. ØRskov ,
F. D. Deb. Hovell  and
Y. L. Feng
G. Y. Zhao
Affiliation:
Rowett Research Institute, Bucksburn, Aberdeen AB2 9SB
M. Durić
Affiliation:
Rowett Research Institute, Bucksburn, Aberdeen AB2 9SB
N. A. Macleod
Affiliation:
Rowett Research Institute, Bucksburn, Aberdeen AB2 9SB
E. R. ØRskov
Affiliation:
Rowett Research Institute, Bucksburn, Aberdeen AB2 9SB
F. D. Deb. Hovell
Affiliation:
Rowett Research Institute, Bucksburn, Aberdeen AB2 9SB
Y. L. Feng
Affiliation:
Rowett Research Institute, Bucksburn, Aberdeen AB2 9SB
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Four sheep sustained by intragastric nutrition were used to study saliva secretion and the relationship between osmotic pressure in the rumen and net water transport across the rumen wall. Different concentrations of buffer were infused into the rumen to change the rumen osmotic pressure. Salivary secretion was estimated from entrance of P into the rumen. Net water transport across the rumen wall was calculated as the difference between water inflow and water outflow from the rumen. A negative linear relationship between the rumen osmotic pressure (X, mOsm/kg) and the water absorption across the rumen wall (Y, ml/h) was found: Y = (394 SE 8·3)–(l·22 SE 0·03) X, r20·83, (P < 0·001), and a positive linear relationship was found between the rumen osmotic pressure (X, mOsm /kg) and the outflow rate of rumen fluid (Y, ml/h): Y = (34·0 SE 8·0) + (0·97 SE 0·03), X, r2 0·56, (P < 0·001). The implication is that rumen osmotic pressure can be a key factor in the control of the net water transport across the rumen wall, the outflow of rumen fluid to omasum and the rumen liquid dilution rate. A method is suggested by which salivary secretion in sheep may be calculated from the water balance in the rumen.

Keywords

Osmotic pressureRumenSalivaWater absorption
Type
Saliva, osmotic pressure and water transport
Information
British Journal of Nutrition , Volume 73 , Issue 2 , February 1995 , pp. 155 - 161
Copyright
Copyright © The Nutrition Society 1995

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