Abstract
The objectives of this cross-sectional, nonintervention, observational study were to compare urine and blood parameters between cows consuming a positive dietary cation-anion difference (DCAD) diet [early dry cows, DCAD + 250 mEq/kg of dry matter (DM), n = 15] with the same cows consuming a negative DCAD diet (−220 mEq/kg of DM) 10 d after moving them from the early dry to the prepartum group. The most remarkable finding was that cows consuming the anionic diet had very low urine pH and very low base excess in blood, suggestive of uncompensated metabolic acidosis. Importantly, the metabolomics data revealed that only urine concentrations of essential and aromatic amino acids were decreased, and that concentrations of total nonessential amino acids and glucogenic amino acids were increased in plasma and reciprocally decreased in urine, suggesting that the cows fed anionic salts were attempting to meet a high glucose demand by mobilizing gluconeogenic amino acid reserves. Notably, the dietary anionic salts exerted marked effects on glycerophospholipids, with a reduction in most phosphatidylcholine containing diacyl (PC aa) and acyl-alkyl (PC ae) moieties in plasma and urine. Further characterization of these metabolomic profiles may lead to the development of novel biomarkers to identify cows susceptible to metabolic acidosis and other metabolic diseases.
Highlights
Cows consuming a very low negative dietary cation-anion difference (DCAD) diet had urine pH
The most remarkable finding was that cows consuming the anionic diet had very low urine pH and very low base excess in blood, suggestive of uncompensated metabolic acidosis
The metabolomics data revealed that only urine concentrations of essential and aromatic amino acids were decreased, and that concentrations of total nonessential amino acids and glucogenic amino acids were increased in plasma and reciprocally decreased in urine, suggesting that the cows fed anionic salts were attempting to meet a high glucose demand by mobilizing gluconeogenic amino acid reserves
Summary
Cows consuming a very low negative DCAD diet had urine pH
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