Cottonseed meal, dehydrated grass and ascorbic acid as dietary factors preventing toxicity of vanadium for the chick

Conference · Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1971 · Poult. Sci.; (United States)

OSTI ID:6405055

Berg, L R; Lawrence, W W

Studies have been conducted which show that the replacement of 5% sucrose in a sucrose-fish meal diet for chicks with degossypolized cottonseed meal prevents the toxicity of 20 ppm added vanadium. The addition of 5% dehydrated grass to the same ration markedly reduced the toxicity symptoms. No such reduction in vanadium toxicity resulted when soybean meal, corn gluten meal, meat meal, fish meal, casein, isolated soybean protein, zein or wheat gluten were added to the ration. No evidence was found that the gossypol remaining in the cottonseed meal was the detoxifying agent. The addition of 0.25 to 0.50% ascorbic acid to the sucrose-fish meal basal ration prevented the toxic symptoms resulting from the addition of 20 ppm vanadium derived from HN/sub 4/VO/sub 3/. The vanadium derived from VOSO/sub 4/ and VOCl/sub 2/ (vanadium valence 4) was as toxic as vanadium derived from HN/sub 4/VO/sub 3/ (V = valence 5). This leads one to question that the action of ascorbic acid in reducing vanadium toxicity is through its property of a reducing agent which might change the vanadium in VH/sub 4/VO/sub 3/ to a lower valence, presumably less toxic.

• Research Organization: Washington State Univ., Puyallup
• OSTI ID: 6405055
• Report Number(s): CONF-720139-
• Journal Information: Poult. Sci.; (United States), Vol. 50; Conference: National Turkey Federation convention and exposition, Dallas, TX, USA, 6 Jan 1972
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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