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Novel nanofiber mats for effective delivery of sodium metabisulfite (SMBS) to the intestinal tract of pigs

Published: October 12, 2021
By: Changning Yu 1, Peng Lu 2, Shangxi Liu 2, Chengbo Yang 2, Song Liu 1 / 1 Departments of Biosystems Engineering and 2 Animal Science, Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB.
Summary

Deoxynivalenol (DON) occurs on many commonly used cereal grains. DON levels as low as 0.6 to 2.0 ppm in complete feed cause a reduction in feed intake and growth rate, damage to the intestinal epithelial cells and increased susceptibility to enteric pathogen challenge. Sodium metabisulfite (SMBS) is a sulfite reducing agent commonly added to animal feeds to improve protein digestibility by cleaving disulfide bonds. It has been shown that SMBS can destroy 70%-100% of DON in processed grains or feeds in vitro with 0.45%-0.9% levels at pH around 6.5 but not at acidic conditions. SMBS can be degraded quickly under aqueous acid conditions such as pig stomach to form sulfur dioxide and subsequently decompose into sodium oxide and sulfur dioxide. Therefore, little SMBS will remain intact in the small intestine where an optimal pH environment exists for SMBS to detoxify DON. Thus, the aim of this study is to encapsulate SMBS into nanofiber mats by an electrospinning technology to deliver intact SMBS to the lower gut such as the small intestine to detoxify DON effectively. Electrospinning was implemented to prepare nanofiberous mats from a suspension of particulate SMBS in the solution of a pH sensitive polymer (Eudragit L100-55). The highest loading capacity and loading efficiency of SMBS achieved in the nanofiberous mats were 32.00% and 80.01%, respectively. In vitro release studies showed that 49.17% of encapsulated SMBS was released in the simulated gastric fluid (SGF) in 2 h and 50.83% of SMBS release was observed in the simulated intestinal fluid (SIF) within 2 h. Additionally, in an in vitro DON detoxification experiment using IPEC-J2 cells, the ability of DON detoxification in DON (1 μg/mL) and nanofiberous mat with 1% SMBS group was reflected by 82.99% cell viability. For the first time, we demonstrate successful encapsulation of particulate SMBS in a nano-vehicle (electrospun nanofiber), achieve >50% release of SMBS in SIF, and effective detoxification of DON in an in vitro cell assay. 

Key words: sodium metabisulfite (SMBS), deoxynivalenol (DON), nanofiber, release, pig.

 

Published in the proceedings of the Animal Nutrition Conference of Canada 2020. For information on the event, past and future editions, check out https://animalnutritionconference.ca/.

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