Sodium bicarbonate does not prevent acute bovine pulmonary edema and emphysema

Authors

  • R. G. Breeze Department of Veterinary Microbiology & Pathology, Washington State University, Pullman, Wash. 99164
  • J. R. Carlson Department of Animal Sciences, Washington State University, Pullman, Wash. 99164
  • M. J. Potchoiba Department of Animal Sciences, Washington State University, Pullman, Wash. 99164
  • M. R. Nocerini Department of Animal Sciences, Washington State University, Pullman, Wash. 99164
  • A. C. Hammond Department of Animal Sciences, Washington State University, Pullman, Wash. 99164

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21423/bovine-vol1981no16p40-43

Keywords:

cattle diseases, Indoles, pulmonary emphysema, respiratory diseases

Abstract

Feeding calves with hay containing 4% NaHCO3 did not prevent severe respiratory disease induced by an oral dose of 0.35 g tryptophan per kg body weight. Levels of 3-methylindole in rumen fluid after tryptophan treatment were similar in calves fed NaHCO3 to levels in calves fed only hay.

Cover image of the 16th Volume of the Bovine Practitioner: a photo of Seattle with Mount Rainier in the background and the Kingdome in the middle distance.

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Published

1981-11-01

Issue

No. 16 (1981 November)

Section

Articles

How to Cite

Sodium bicarbonate does not prevent acute bovine pulmonary edema and emphysema. (1981). The Bovine Practitioner, 1981(16), 40-43. https://doi.org/10.21423/bovine-vol1981no16p40-43