Influence of duodenal infusion of betaine or choline on 
blood metabolites and duodenal electrical activity in 
Friesian calves

Puchała, R.; Zabielski, R.; Naughton, Violetta; Gralak, Mikołaj Antoni; Kiela, Pawel R.; Barej, W.

doi:10.1017/s0021859698005814

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“…Abomasal infusion of betaine alone or in combination with cysteine had little effect on plasma amino acids (Table 4). In contrast, Puchala et al (1998) observed increases in plasma methionine concentrations when betaine was infused into the duodenum of calves. Puchala et al (1994Puchala et al ( , 1997 also ob-served increases in plasma methionine levels when goats received jugular infusions of betaine.…”

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“…Nitrogen retention was not significantly altered by abomasal supplementation with 8 g/d of choline (Table 5). Puchala et al (1998) similarly observed no responses to choline when infused via the duodenum of calves. These observations are in contrast to those of Bindel et al (2000) and Drouillard et al (1998), who demonstrated that finishing cattle respond positively to supplementation of ruminally protected choline.…”

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Methionine as a methyl group donor in growing cattle

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et al. 2002

Journal of Animal Science

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Holstein steers were used in two 5 x 5 Latin square experiments to evaluate the sparing of methionine by alternative sources of methyl groups (betaine and choline). Steers were housed in metabolism crates and limit-fed a soybean hull-based diet high in rumen degradable protein. To increase energy supply, ruminal infusions of volatile fatty acids and abomasal infusions of glucose were provided. An amino acid mixture, limiting in methionine, was infused abomasally to ensure that nonsulfur amino acids did not limit protein synthesis. Treatments for Exp. 1 were abomasal infusion of 1) water, 2) 2 g/d L-methionine, 3) 1.7 g/d L-cysteine, 4) 1.6 g/d betaine, and 5) 1.7 g/d L-cysteine + 1.6 g/d betaine. Treatments for Exp. 2 were abomasal infusion of 1) water, 2) 2 g/d L-methionine, 3) 8 g/d betaine, 4) 16 g/d betaine, and 5) 8 g/d choline. In both experiments, nitrogen retention increased in response to methionine (P < 0.05), demonstrating a deficiency of sulfur amino acids. Responses to cysteine, betaine, and choline were all small and not significant. The lack of response to cysteine indicates that the response to methionine was not due to transsulfuration to cysteine or that cysteine supply did not alter the flux of methionine through transsulfuration. The lack of response to betaine suggests that the steers' needs for methyl groups were met by the dietary conditions or that betaine was relatively inefficient in increasing the remethylation of homocysteine to methionine and, thereby, reducing the synthesis of cysteine from homocysteine. Under our experimental conditions, responses to methionine were likely due to a correction of a deficiency of methionine per se rather than of methyl group donors.

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Methionine as a methyl group donor in growing cattle

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et al. 2002

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“…If betaine stimulates cell proliferation in the intestinal tissue, the enlarged gut wall epithelium would provide an increased surface for nutrient absorption. However, the influence of betaine on intestinal muscle cell activity in calves seems to be dose-dependent with higher levels reducing muscle-cell activity, thus possibly decreasing the absorption capacity of the duodenum (Puchala et al, 1998). Effects of betaine as an osmotic active substance may be more pronounced in animals exposed to osmotic disorders such as coccidiosis in poultry (Augustine et al, 1997).…”

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Effects of inOvoAdministration of Betaine and Choline on Hatchability Results, Growth and Carcass Characteristics and Immune Response of Broiler Chickens

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Italian Journal of Animal Science

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The effect of in ovo administration of different levels of betaine and choline on egg hatchability, immune response, growth and carcass traits of broiler chickens was studied. Four thousand hatching eggs from Ross 308 broiler breeder layers, weighed individually, were incubated for 21 days in a commercial hatchery. At 12 th day of incubation, 3456 fertilized eggs were randomly divided into 8 experimental groups of 3 replicates each (144 eggs per replicate): negative control (NC) -not injected; positive control (PC) -injected with 0.5 mL deionized water; Bet 0.25 -injected with 0.5 mL deionized water+0.25 mg soluble betaine; Bet 0.375 -injected with 0.5 mL deionized water+0.375 mg soluble betaine; Bet 0.50 -injected with 0.5 mL deionized water+0.50 mg soluble betaine; Chol 0.25 -injected with 0.5 mL deionized water+0.25 mg soluble choline; Chol 0.375 -injected with 0.5 mL deionized water+0.375 mg soluble choline; Chol 0.50 -injected with 0.5 mL deionized water+0.50 mg soluble choline. Among the hatched chickens, 360 males were randomly chosen (45 for each group) and were grown up to 42 nd day of age. The embryo mortality, pecked eggs, infected eggs and hatchability percentages were similar among the experimental groups. The betaine and choline treatments improved hatching weight and final weight of chickens, while reduced feed conversion ratio and abdominal fat percentage. No effect on carcass yield, and breast muscle, leg and wings percentages, as well as on immunoglobulin M (IgM), G (IgG), and total antibody (IgT) titers was observed. The treatments had little effect on internal organs.

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“…Betaine (glycine betaine) is a naturally occurring compound with methyl donor properties which is increasingly being used in animal feeding (Puchala et al, 1998). Within the rumen, betaine is converted to acetate by microbes, which then passes into the blood, where it is metabolised.…”

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confidence: 99%