Abstract
We have found that rumen bacteria contain endotoxins that are released into rumen fluid. Also rumen fluid from grain-fed cattle contains considerably more free endotoxin than rumen fluid from hay-fed cattle. Injecting cattle with rumen bacterial endotoxins may be involved with such diseases associated with high-grain feeding as the sudden death syndrome.
Keywords: Cattlemen's Day, 1979, Report of progress (Kansas State University. Agricultural Experiment Station), 350, Beef, Endotoxins, Sudden death syndrome
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Nagaraja, T. G., Bartley, E., Fina, L., Anthony, H. & Leipold, H., (1979) “Rumen bacterial endotoxins and their possible role in the sudden-death syndrome”, Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station Research Reports 1(1), 71-72. doi: https://doi.org/10.4148/2378-5977.2611
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