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Título: Urinary acidifier in diet with high excess base for adult cats
Título(s) alternativo(s): Acidificante urinário em dieta com elevado excesso de bases para gatos adultos
Palavras-chave: Feline
Blood gas
Felinos
Hemogasometria
Data do documento: 2013
Editor: Universidade Federal de Lavras
Citação: PIRES, C. P. et al. Urinary acidifier in diet with high excess base for adult cats. Ciência e Agrotecnologia, Lavras, v. 37, n. 4, July/Aug. 2013.
Resumo: Maintaining the pH of urine in the ideal range (6.2 - 6.4) is of great importance for health promotion in the lower urinary tract of cats. In the economic and standard feed sector this is a major concern, given that the animal urine tends to be alkaline after food consumption of those commercial segments, which predispose to the formation of struvite urolith. Therefore, this study aimed to study the effects of increasing levels of urinary acidifiers (0.0%, 0.3%, 0.6% and 0.9%, on a dry matter base) in feed with high excess base over the acid-basic balance in the organism, apparent digestibility coefficients of nutrients, urinary pH, hydro-electrolyte balance in cats, as well as the adequacy of equations proposed in the literature to estimate the urinary pH. Twenty-four adult cats, males and females were distributed in a completely randomized design, consisting of six animals per treatment. The dry matter content of urine presented a quadratic behavior (p<0,05; y = 9.5863 + 3.2299x + 0.7871x2 R2 = 99,91%), HCO3-, total CO2 and excess blood base during the period in which the animals were fed were high when including 0.9% acidifier compared to 0.6% (p<0.05). In contrast, the use of the additive did not change the urinary pH, blood electrolyte concentration, nutrient digestibility, fecal score, food and water intake (p>0.05). The equations proposed in the literature, which use excess of base in feed to estimate urinary pH, overestimated the pH values found in this study.
URI: http://repositorio.ufla.br/jspui/handle/1/37718
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