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Effects of organic and inorganic sulphur on the availability of dietary copper to sheep

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 July 2007

N. F. Suttle
N. F. Suttle
Affiliation:
Moredun Research Institute, Edinburgh EH17 7JH
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1. The effects of dietary sulphur on the availability of dietary copper were estimated by means of a repletion technique. The responses of initially hypocupraemic ewes to repletion with Cu-supplemented diets containing supplements of organic S, as methionine, and of inorganic S, as Na2SO4, were compared with those obtained with a diet low in S.

2. The two forms of S had similar effects. Responses in plasma Cu were reduced by 39–56 % when S was increased from 1.0 to 3.0 or 4.0 g/kg diet and the availability of dietary Cu was estimated to have decreased from 0.062 to 0.041. Both S supplements produced marked increases in rumen sulphide concentrations.

3. Dietary S had no effect on plasma Cu when added to the low-Cu diet of hypocupraemic ewes being repleted by a continuous intravenous infusion of Cu.

4. The addition of CuS, providing 5 mg Cu/kg, to the diet of hypocupraemic ewes produced no response in plasma Cu or haemoglobin. The same amount of Cu, given as CuSO4, increased plasma Cu by 0.46±0.15 mg/l and haemoglobin by 33±3.8 g/l after 36 d: the subsequent replacement of CuSO4 by CuS induced hypocupraemia again but had no effect on haemoglobin.

5. It was concluded that variations in dietary S within the normal range for herbage exert an independent effect on Cu metabolism, possibly through the formation of insoluble CuS at sites beyond the rumen.

Type
General Nutrition
Information
British Journal of Nutrition , Volume 32 , Issue 3 , November 1974 , pp. 559 - 568
Copyright
Copyright © The Nutrition Society 1974

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