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Effects of body condition score at parturition and postpartum supplemental fat on adipose tissue lipogenic activity of lactating beef cows¹

S. L. Lake^*,2, E. J. Scholljegerdes^*,3, V. Nayigihugu^*, C. M. Murrieta^*, R. L. Atkinson^*, D. C. Rule^*, T. J. Robinson and B. W. Hess^*,4

^* Department of Animal Science and and Department of Statistics, University of Wyoming, Laramie 82071-3684

⁴ Corresponding author: brethess{at}uwyo.edu

Three-year-old Angus x Gelbvieh beef cows nutritionally managed to achieve a BCS of 4 ± 0.07 (479.3 ± 36.3 kg of initial BW) or 6 ± 0.07 (579.6 ± 53.1 kg of initial BW) at parturition were used in a 2-yr experiment (n = 36/yr) to determine the effects of BCS at parturition and postpartum lipid supplementation on cow adipose tissue lipogenesis. Beginning 3 d postpartum, cows within each BCS were randomly assigned to be fed hay and a low-fat control supplement or supplements with either cracked high-linoleate safflower seeds or cracked high-oleate safflower seeds until d 60 of lactation. Diets were formulated to be isonitrogenous and isocaloric, and safflower seed diets provided 5% DMI as fat. Adipose tissue biopsies were collected near the tail-head region of cows on d 30 and 60 of lactation. Dietary treatment did not affect (P 0.43) adipose tissue lipogenesis. Body condition score at parturition did not affect acetate incorporation into lipid (P = 0.53) or activity of acetyl CoA carboxylase (P = 0.77) or fatty acid synthase (P = 0.18). Lipoprotein lipase activity and palmitate incorporation into triacyl-glycerol tended to be greater (P = 0.06), and palmitate esterification into total acylglycerols was greater (P = 0.01) in cows with a BCS of 4 at parturition. Mean activity of acetyl-CoA carboxylase (P < 0.001), lipoprotein lipase (P = 0.01), and rate of palmitate incorporation into monoacylglycerol (P = 0.02), diacylglycerol (P = 0.001), triacylglycerol (P = 0.003), and total acylglycerols (P = 0.002) were greater at d 30 than d 60, suggesting a greater proclivity for fatty acid biosynthesis and esterification by adipose tissue at d 30 of lactation. Although dietary lipid supplementation did not affect adipose tissue lipogenesis, results suggest that cows with a BCS of 4 at parturition have a greater propensity to deliver exogenously derived fatty acids to the adipocyte surface and incorporate preformed fatty acids into acylglycerols as stored adipocyte lipid. Additionally, cows in early lactation seemed to be able to synthesize and incorporate more fatty acids into stored lipid than cows during peak lactation.

Key Words: beef cattle • body condition score • lactation • lipid supplementation • lipogenesis

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