The Effect of Dietary Fumonisin Exposure on Apparent Ileal Digestibility of Amino Acids in Fattening Pigs

Yarsmin Yunus Zeebone (), Melinda Kovács, Brigitta Bóta and Veronika Halas
Additional contact information
Yarsmin Yunus Zeebone: Agribiotechnology and Precision Breeding for Food Security National Laboratory, Department of Physiology and Animal Health, Institute of Animal Physiology and Nutrition, Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences-Kaposvár Campus, 40, Guba S. Str., H-7400 Kaposvár, Hungary
Melinda Kovács: Agribiotechnology and Precision Breeding for Food Security National Laboratory, Department of Physiology and Animal Health, Institute of Animal Physiology and Nutrition, Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences-Kaposvár Campus, 40, Guba S. Str., H-7400 Kaposvár, Hungary
Brigitta Bóta: ELKH-MATE Mycotoxins in the Food Chain Research Group, 40, Guba S. Str., H-7400 Kaposvár, Hungary
Veronika Halas: Department of Farm Animal Nutrition, Institute of Animal Physiology and Nutrition, Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences Kaposvár Campus, 40, Guba S. Str., H-7400 Kaposvár, Hungary

Agriculture, 2022, vol. 12, issue 10, 1-9

Abstract: The cellular toxicity of the Fusarium mycotoxin fumonisins (FUMs) has been widely accounted for. However, the ability of FUMs to destroy intestinal functions is an emergence of growing concern. Thus, this experiment ascertained whether dietary FUMs obstruct the apparent ileal digestibility (AID) of crude protein (CP) and amino acids (AAs) in fattening pigs during either short (7 d)- or long (21 d)-term exposure. Ten Danbred fattening pigs (initial body weight (BW) of 67.5 ± 4.1) inserted with a post-valve T-cecum cannula in the terminal ileum were enrolled in the trial. The pigs were randomly divided into a control group fed a basal commercial diet and a group fed in vitro-produced FUMs to provide a 40 mg FUMs/kg-contaminated diet. Titanium dioxide was added at an inclusion rate of 0.5% as an indigestible marker to diets. During two separate periods, ileal digesta were collected for 3 consecutive days for the determination of the AID of CP and the various dispensable and indispensable AAs. Data were subjected to two-way ANOVA of SPSS version 20.0 software using FUMs dose (i = 2; 0 or 40 mg FUMs/ kg feed) and duration (j = 2; short- vs. long-term exposure) as fixed factors. According to our findings, a dietary intake of 40 mg/kg FUMs substantially interfered with the AID of arginine, histidine, and tyrosine ( p = 0.003, 0.047, and 0.047, respectively) in terms of the dose and duration interaction effect. In addition, the main duration effect of the AID of histidine was significant ( p < 0.001). It is, therefore, conceivable that a dietary dose of a 40 mg/kg FUMs-contaminated diet does not drastically affect CP and AAs digestibility in fattening pigs over a period of 7 or 21 days.

Keywords: amino acids; apparent ileal digestibility; crude protein; fattening pigs; fumonisins; mycotoxins (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q1 Q10 Q11 Q12 Q13 Q14 Q15 Q16 Q17 Q18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
References: View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.mdpi.com/2077-0472/12/10/1720/pdf (application/pdf)
https://www.mdpi.com/2077-0472/12/10/1720/ (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:gam:jagris:v:12:y:2022:i:10:p:1720-:d:946675

Access Statistics for this article

Agriculture is currently edited by Ms. Leda Xuan

More articles in Agriculture from MDPI
Bibliographic data for series maintained by MDPI Indexing Manager ().