Abstract
Total and peroxisomal palmitate oxidation capacities and mitochondrial enzyme activities were compared in tissues from growing rats, preruminant calves and 15-month-old bulls. Total palmitate oxidation rates were 1.9–5.2-fold higher in rat than in bovine tissues and 1.7-fold higher in the heart and muscles from calves than from growing bulls. The peroxisomal contribution to palmitate oxidation was similar between rats and bovines (i.e. calves and bulls) in liver (35–51%), heart (26%) but not in muscles (14±3% in rats vs 33±4.5% in bovines, P<0.05). Mitochondrial enzyme activities were 1.8–4.8-fold higher in rat than in bovine tissues but the citrate synthase to cytochrome- c oxidase ratio was the highest in the liver (17–38), intermediate in the heart and muscles from calves and rats (6–10) and the lowest in heart and muscles from bulls (2–3, P<0.05). In all tissues and animal groups, palmitate oxidation rates were similar per unit cytochrome- c oxidase activity, but not always per unit citrate synthase activity. Therefore, differences in mitochondrial contents (as between rats and bovines) or in mitochondrial characteristics (as between liver and muscles) relate to the differences in palmitate oxidation capacity.
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