Enhanced production of pancreatic digestive enzymes during aflatoxicosis in egg-type XXXX .

@entity137 @entity8884 @entity6123 @entity1573 @entity11189 @entity17326
As @entity11189 causes @entity8884 and its @entity137 is enhanced by a low protein diet, digestive enzymes formed in the pancreas apparently are influenced by @entity11189 . This hypothesis was investigated in a 2 X 2 factorial experiment. Six groups of 10 egg-type @entity1573 per treatment were analyzed for the absence and presence of @entity11189 (0 and 4 micrograms/g diet) and for normal (12.75%) and low (10.00%) protein in soy-dextrose diets. The specific activities of pancreatic chymotrypsin, amylase, and lipase, but not trypsin, were increased significantly (P less than .01) by @entity11189 . Lowering dietary protein had no effect by itself except to increase amylase activity. Low protein and @entity11189 interacted to lessen but not prevent the effect of @entity11189 on chymotrypsin and amylase. Calculation of total pancreatic activities revealed that @entity11189 increased trypsin, chymotrypsin, amylase, and lipase to 107, 169, 113, and 119%, respectively, of control values on the low protein diet, whereas values were 99, 175, 115, and 115%, respectively, on the normal protein diet. Neither @entity11189 nor low protein altered significantly (P less than .05) the lipid content of fecal material. Thus, aflatoxicosis in egg-type @entity1573 is characterized by a surplus of some digestive enzymes and by normal fecal lipids in contrast to the specific @entity17326 and @entity6123 reported earlier in meat-type @entity1573 . Whereas @entity8884 caused by @entity11189 in broilers can be accounted for in part by impaired digestion, this mechanism apparently does not occur in egg-type @entity1573 .
