PMID- 22444464 OWN - NLM STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE DCOM- 20121002 LR - 20220330 IS - 1751-7311 (Print) IS - 1751-7311 (Linking) VI - 1 IP - 5 DP - 2007 Jun TI - The use of a tannin crude extract from Cistus ladanifer L. to protect soya-bean protein from degradation in the rumen. PG - 645-50 LID - 10.1017/S1751731107689745 [doi] AB - Cistus ladanifer L. (CL) is a perennial shrub abundant in dry woods and dry land of Mediterranean zone, with high level of tannins. Tannins bind to protein, preventing its degradation in the digestive compartments. This tannin/protein complex may be advantageous when partially protecting good-quality feed protein from excessive rumen protein degradation. The objective of this trial was to use a CL phenol crude extract to prevent excessive rumen degradation of soya-bean meal protein. The phenolic compounds were extracted using an acetone/water solution (70:30, v/v). Soya-bean meal was then treated with this crude CL extract, containing 640 g of total phenols (TP) per kg of dry matter (DM), in order to obtain mixtures with 0, 12.5, 25, 50, 100 and 150 g of TP per kg DM. Three rumen-cannulated rams were used to assess in sacco rumen degradability of DM and nitrogen (N). The three-step in vitro procedure was used to determine intestinal digestibility. Increasing extract concentrations quadratically decreased the N-soluble fraction a (R2 = 0.96, P = 0.0001) and increased the non-soluble degradable fraction b (R2 = 0.92, P = 0.005). The rate of degradation c linearly decreased with CL extract doses (R2 = 0.44, P = 0.0065). For the effective rumen degradability of N, a linear reduction (R2 = 0.94, P < 0.0001) was observed. The in vitro intestinal digestibility of protein (ivID) quadratically decreased (R2 = 0.99, P < 0.0001) with TP inclusion and the rumen undegradable protein (RUP) showed a quadratic increase (R2 = 0.94, P = 0.0417). Total intestinal protein availability, computed from the RUP and ivID, linearly decreased with TP inclusion level (R2 = 0.45, P = 0.0033). FAU - Dentinho, M T P AU - Dentinho MT AD - Estacao Zootecnica Nacional, Fonte Boa, 2005-048 Vale de Santarem, Portugal. FAU - Moreira, O C AU - Moreira OC FAU - Pereira, M S AU - Pereira MS FAU - Bessa, R J B AU - Bessa RJ LA - eng PT - Journal Article PL - England TA - Animal JT - Animal : an international journal of animal bioscience JID - 101303270 EDAT- 2007/06/01 00:00 MHDA- 2007/06/01 00:01 CRDT- 2012/03/27 06:00 PHST- 2012/03/27 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2007/06/01 00:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2007/06/01 00:01 [medline] AID - S1751731107689745 [pii] AID - 10.1017/S1751731107689745 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Animal. 2007 Jun;1(5):645-50. doi: 10.1017/S1751731107689745.