1. Metabolic Characterization of Dairy Cows Treated with Gossypol by Blood Biochemistry and Body Fluid Untargeted Metabolome Analyses.
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Tang C, Zhang K, Zhan T, Zhao Q, and Zhang J
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- Animal Feed adverse effects, Animal Feed analysis, Animals, Body Fluids, Cattle blood, Cottonseed Oil adverse effects, Cottonseed Oil chemistry, Female, Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry, Gossypol adverse effects, Gossypol blood, Gossypol chemistry, Isomerism, Lactose analysis, Lactose metabolism, Metabolome, Milk chemistry, Milk Proteins analysis, Milk Proteins metabolism, Cattle metabolism, Cottonseed Oil metabolism, Gossypol metabolism, Milk metabolism, Plasma chemistry
- Abstract
To characterize the metabolic disorders of dairy cows treated with gossypol, 12 dairy cows were assigned to either a control group or a treatment group that was fed 1000 mg of gossypol per kilogram of dry matter feed for 28 days. Milk quality was adversely affected, as both milk protein and lactose levels were significantly decreased in the gossypol-treated group (3.40% vs 3.16%, P = 0.044; 5.15% vs 4.91%, P = 0.027; respectively). Plasma samples revealed increases in alanine aminotransferase (P = 0.092), choline esterase (P = 0.02), and glutathione transferase (P = 0.0005) and decreases in glucose (P = 0.076) in the gossypol-treated group. Mass spectrometry based comparative metabolomic analyses showed reduced concentrations of the gluconeogenesis precursor l-glutamine (P = 0.047), with significant decreases (P < 0.05) in plasma l-lysine, l-threonine, and homoserine levels after gossypol treatment. HDL-C and LDL-C levels in the gossypol-treated group were increased (P = 0.044) and decreased (P = 0.023), respectively. These results demonstrate that gossypol induced oxidative stress and hepatotoxicity; reduced peripheral lipid metabolism, and enhanced hepatic lipid accumulation; decreased amino acid bioavailability and milk protein synthesis; and decreased gluconeogenesis and milk lactose in dairy cows. more...
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- 2017
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