Welfare

 Industry Partners


Prairie Swine Centre is an affiliate of the University of Saskatchewan


Prairie Swine Centre is grateful for the assistance of the George Morris Centre in developing the economics portion of Pork Insight.

Financial support for the Enterprise Model Project and Pork Insight has been provided by:



Author(s): C. E. Huntington,1* T. L. Veum,2 J. S. Morris1
Publication Date: January 1, 2007
Reference: DOI: 10.1007/s10967-007-0421-9 Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry
Country: USA

Summary:

Supplemental zinc as ZnO is routinely added to nursery pig diets at 15 to 20 times the nutritional requirement to alleviate physiological stress and enhance performance. The mechanism by which Zn accomplishes this function is unknown, however, high concentrations of Zn are excreted in the environment at undesirable levels. To study Zn uptake, we developed a multi-stage digestion model followed by exposure to swine intestinal brush border membrane vesicles (BBMV). We report on the feasibility of using a duel label (65Zn and 69mZn) to simultaneously quantify the competitive uptake of Zn from co-existing zinc supplements using our BBMV model.

Download PDF »

You must be logged in to post a comment.

 
 
Slots Master There is no definite strategy or technique that you can use as you play slots