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Studies on the transport in vitro of lysine, histidine, arginine and ammonia across the mucosa of the equine colon
Author(s) -
BOCHRÖDER BRITTA,
SCHUBERT R.,
BÖDEKER D.
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
equine veterinary journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.82
H-Index - 87
eISSN - 2042-3306
pISSN - 0425-1644
DOI - 10.1111/j.2042-3306.1994.tb04351.x
Subject(s) - histidine , ammonia , arginine , incubation , lysine , amino acid , intestinal mucosa , chemistry , in vitro , rumen , horse , biology , biochemistry , medicine , paleontology , fermentation
Summary Discs of stripped mucosa from the proximal ventral colon were prepared immediately after slaughter of 8 Shetland cross‐breed ponies. The mucosae were fixed in incubation chambers and used in incubation experiments to study the transmucosal fluxes of the amino acids lysine, histidine and arginine (150 min) and of ammonia (90 min). When the amino acid concentrations in the mucosal solution were in the physiological range (2.8–3.0 mmol/l) no transport to the serosal side of the tissue was found. When the concentrations were raised 10‐fold, less than 2% of the mucosal amino acid pool was recovered in the serosal solution. Ammonia was transported across the mucosa at significant rates although only 63% of the ammonia that disappeared from the mucosal solution was found in the serosal solution. The findings show that the equine proximal colon is virtually impermeable to luminal free amino acids whereas ammonia is transported at rates equal to, or higher than those observed with rumen mucosa from sheep.

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