Propionate, like acetate, is an active metabolite which arises from a variety of sources in animal tissues. It is produced during the metabolism of fatty acids which contain an odd number of carbon atoms (2) and which, as Shorland and Hansen (3) have shown, occur naturally in small amounts in triglycerides from various animal tissues. It arises also during the catabolism of certain amino acids ...

The rumen microbial ecosystem is a complex system where rumen fermentation processes involve interactions among microorganisms. There are important relationships between diet and the ruminal bacterial composition. Thus, we investigated the ruminal fermentation characteristics and compared ruminal bacterial communities using tag amplicon pyrosequencing analysis in Yanbian yellow steers, which we...

BACKGROUND High dose inhaled glucocorticosteroids are increasingly used in the management of patients with moderate to severe asthma. Although effective, they may cause systemic side effects. Fluticasone propionate is a topically active inhaled glucocorticosteroid which has few systemic effects at high doses. METHODS Fluticasone propionate, 1.5 mg per day, was compared with beclomethasone dip...

Cattle grazing dormant western rangelands may have a high ruminal acetate to propionate ratio (A:P) and may have low tissue clearance of acetate. Increasing propionate production could shift this ratio and improve animal performance. In Exp. 1, the effect of Propionibacterium acidipropionici P169 (PA) on forage digestibility and VFA production was evaluated in vitro using 2 substrates: 100% dor...

Isolated liver cells prepared from fed sheep synthesize glucose from propionate at twice the rate observed with cells from starved animals. Addition of palmitate or palmitate + carnitine to incubations of liver cells from starved animals inhibited the rate of glucose synthesis with lactate as a precursor, but had little effect when propionate and pyruvate were substrates. Liver cells from fed a...

Two criteria were used to measure the effectiveness of hormones in the therapy of mammary tumors induced in SpragueDawley rats by 7,12-dimethylbenz[a]anthraeene. These were complete regression of all tumors in the host and duration of complete remission. Well-established, growing mammary tumors were treated with testosterone propionate or 2o~-methyldihydrotestosterone propionate. There was no s...

The objective of this experiment was to investigate the effects of different levels of alfalfa hay (AH) and sodium propionate (Pro) added to starter diets of Holstein calves on growth performance, rumen fermentation characteristics, and rumen development. Forty-two male Holstein calves (40±2kg of birth weight) were used in a complete randomized design with a 3×2 factorial arrangement of treatme...

the objective of this meta-analysis was to compare effects of chemical methanogenic inhibitors on fermentation parameters in ruminal batch cultures. nine published in vitro studies including 26 treatment means in which 2-bromoethane sulfonate, bromochloromethane and 9,10-anthraquinone were used as methanogens inhibitor compared in amount of ch4, h2, total volatile fatty acid, actate, propionate...

Rationale: Monitoring was required for the introduction of non-chlorofluorocarbon (CFC) propellants in metered dose inhalers (MDIs) to ensure that there were no unexpected adverse events due to the new products. A postmarketing observational study was conducted to evaluate the introduction of the MDI Seretide Evohaler TM (hydrofluoroalkane-134a inhaler containing salmeterol and fluticasone prop...

The objective of this study was to compare the effects of laidlomycin propionate and monensin on cell growth, glucose fermentation, and glucose uptake in Streptococcus bovis strain JB1 and Selenomonas ruminantium strain HD4. Experiments were also conducted to compare the effects of both ionophores on sodium-dependent serine transport and cell yield in S. bovis. Batch cultures (500 mL) of each b...