Skip to main content

Advertisement

SpringerLink
Log in

Inhibition of Appetite in Dairy Cattle by Certain Intermediate Metabolites

  • Letter
  • Published:

From Nature

View current issue Submit your manuscript

Abstract

MANNING et al. 1 have discussed the applicability of the glucostatic theory of Mayer et al. 2 to the regulation of food intake in sheep. Glucose in ruminant animals plays a relatively minor part in energy metabolism, since a major portion of ingested carbohydrates are degraded to volatile fatty acids which are absorbed into the blood stream via the rumen wall3. Consequently, a chemoreceptor mechanism of regulation of intake in ruminants may depend on any of several metabolites. The objective of this experiment was to examine several major intermediate metabolites for their effect on appetite.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

Similar content being viewed by others

References

  1. Manning, R., Alexander, G. I., Krueger, H. M., and Bogart, R., Amer. J. Vet. Res., 20, 242 (1959).

    Google Scholar 

  2. Mayer, J., and Bates, M. W., Amer. J. Physiol., 168, 812 (1952).

    CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  3. Barcroft, J., McAnally, R. A., and Phillipson, A. T., J. Exp. Biol., 20, 120 (1944).

    CAS  Google Scholar 

  4. National Research Council Publication 464 (1956) gives daily maintenance requirement of a 1,000-lb. cow as 14.1 therms of digestible energy; adjustments for variation in body-weight were proportional to 0.75 log body-weight.

  5. Vallance, W. S., and McClymont, G. L., Nature, 183, 446 (1959).

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Dairy Science, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky

    DONALD R. DOWDEN & DON R. JACOBSON

Authors
  1. DONALD R. DOWDEN
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. DON R. JACOBSON
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

DOWDEN, D., JACOBSON, D. Inhibition of Appetite in Dairy Cattle by Certain Intermediate Metabolites. Nature 188, 148–149 (1960). https://doi.org/10.1038/188148a0

Download citation

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/188148a0

  • Springer Nature Limited

This article is cited by

Search

Navigation