ArticleJournal of animal science and biotechnology2025
Dietary L-leucine supplementation improves ruminal fermentation parameters and epithelium development in fattening Angus beef cattle.
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- Mechanism of a polyherbal mixture alleviates calf diarrhea: an integrated network pharmacology, metabolomics, and microbiome study.Journal of animal science and biotechnology · 2026Article
- Rumen-Protected Leucine Improved Growth Performance of Fattening Sheep by Changing Rumen Fermentation Patterns.Microorganisms · 2025Article
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backgroundIn this study, the effects of L-leucine (Leu) on rumen fermentation parameters, rumen epithelium development, amino acid composition, rumen bacterial communities and rumen metabolites in beef cattle were investigated. Twenty-four fattening Angus females of similar initial weight (575.5 ± 22.1 kg) were randomly assigned to 2 treatments with 4 replicate pens (3 cattle per pen). They were fed either a basal diet or a basal diet supplemented with 6.0 g L-Leu/100 kg BW/d for 120 d.
results(1) Leu increased the ruminal concentrations of total volatile fatty acid (VFA) (P = 0.017), propionate (P = 0.023), isovalerate (P = 0.001), and branched-chain volatile fatty acid (BCVFA) (P = 0.01) at 4 h post-feeding. It also tended to increase acetate (P = 0.083) and decrease the ammonia-N (NH
conclusionsDietary supplementation with L-Leu altered rumen fermentation parameters and patterns, improved rumen epithelial morphology, and enhanced the expression of genes related to VFA absorption and metabolism in the rumen epithelium of beef cattle.
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