Rumen bacterial endotoxins and their possible role in the sudden-death syndrome
Date
2011-02-18
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Kansas State University. Agricultural Experiment Station
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.
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Beef, Endotoxins, Sudden death syndrome