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Undegradable Protein in Ruminant Nutrition

Published: August 8, 2016
Summary
The small intestine is the main place of digestion. Given the special physiology of ruminants, the protein reaching the small intestine is not identical to the protein contained in the feed. Rumen microbes utilize soluble dietary protein for synthesis of microbial protein. Hence, soluble proteins are degraded by proteolytic microbial enzymes to peptides, amino acids and ammonia, whereby also vola...
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Anja Pastor
Phytobiotics
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Nasser H Odetallah
BioResource International, Inc
7 de septiembre de 2016

Thank you Anja for this nice article. What about protease enzymes and how do you see their function in the rumen assuming they are alkaline and can stand the pH of the rumen?
Thanks

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Krishan Agarwal
9 de octubre de 2016
It is a nice article.what are all secondary plant metabolites whichbinds the protein in rumen.kindly give details.
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Ugyen Dema
2 de marzo de 2019

Thank you for the information. I have one question to ask: what is the symbiotic relationship between ruminants and microbes?

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Vilas Saner
13 de febrero de 2021

By which treatment we increase undegradable protein percentage of any feed?

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