caa a22 4500 388062924 CHVBK 20180307125126.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199802 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1079/BJN19980027 doi S0007114598000282 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1079/BJN19980027 Enzyme activities of rumen particles and feed samples incubated in situ with differing types of cloth [Elektronische Daten] Three ruminally cannulated non-lactating dairy cows were used to investigate the effects of six different bag cloth types with pore size (μm): free surface area (%) ratios of 200: 45, 41: 33, 16: 5, 10: 2, 6: 5 and 1: 2 respectively on the disappearance of grass silage DM and neutral-detergent fibre (NDF), and on particle-associated carboxymethylcellulase (EC 3.2.1.4; CMCase) and xylanase (EC 3.2.1.8) activties extracted from feed residues. Another objective was to compare microbial activity inside the bags and in rumen ingesta. Rumen incubation periods were 3, 6, 12, 24, 48 and 96 h. DM and NDF disappearance and particle-associated enzyme activities were greatly reduced with the smaller pore size and/or open surface area. Re-analysing some of the data as a 2 x 2 factorial (pore size x free surface area) indicated that, generally, free surface area rather than pore size affected the disappearance of feed components and particle-associated enzyme activities. Enzyme activities were highly correlated with NDF disappearance at 6-48 h of incubation. Cumulative area under CMCase and xylanase activity curves explained 0·79 and 0·88 of the variation in NDF disappearance when different cloth type and 6-48 h incubation data were combined. Weighted mean enzyme activities inside the bags were less than 0·35 those in rumen ingesta. The highest activity values inside the bags (24 or 48 h) were less than 0·50 those found in rumen ingesta. The lower microbial activity inside the bags explains the slower rates of NDF digestion reported with in situ techniques than with rumen evacuation techniques. The general assumption of similar microbial activity inside the bags and in rumen ingesta is not justified by the present results, and caution must be taken in interpreting in situ results quantitatively for feed evaluation systems. Copyright © The Nutrition Society 1998 Neutral-detergent fibre nationallicence Rumen nationallicence Enzyme activity nationallicence Huhtanen Pekka Department of Animal Science, University of Helsinki, PO Box 28, FIN-00014 Helsinki, Finland Vanhatalo Aila Institute of Animal Production, Agricultural Research Centre (MTT), FIN-31600 Jokioinen, Finland Varvikko Tuomo Institute of Animal Production, Agricultural Research Centre (MTT), FIN-31600 Jokioinen, Finland British Journal of Nutrition Cambridge University Press 79/2(1998-02), 161-168 0007-1145 79:2<161 1998 79 BJN https://doi.org/10.1079/BJN19980027 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1079/BJN19980027 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Huhtanen Pekka Department of Animal Science, University of Helsinki, PO Box 28, FIN-00014 Helsinki, Finland NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Vanhatalo Aila Institute of Animal Production, Agricultural Research Centre (MTT), FIN-31600 Jokioinen, Finland NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Varvikko Tuomo Institute of Animal Production, Agricultural Research Centre (MTT), FIN-31600 Jokioinen, Finland NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- British Journal of Nutrition Cambridge University Press 79/2(1998-02), 161-168 0007-1145 79:2<161 1998 79 BJN CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge