Abstract: A pharmacokinetic comparison of gossypol isomers in cattle was made by investigating their transfer from ingested food to plasma and their degradation by rumen microbes. The gossypol isomers in whole cottonseed, plasma, and rumen fluid were determined by high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC). The intakes of (+)- and (−)-gossypol by cows on three farms were about 5.6–8.5 and 3.8–5.9 g/(d·herd), respectively. The plasma gossypol concentrations increased as ingestion increased and ranged from 0.31 to 0.48 μg/ml for the (+) form and from 0.39 to 0.59 μg/ml for the (−) form. The (+) form was slightly predominant (58.8%–59.8%) in the gossypol ingested by the cows, whereas the (−) form predominated (54.6%–55.9%) in the plasma. An in vitro study showed that at 6 h, 67.4% and 85.7% of the (−)-gossypol were degraded in 500 and 1000 μg/g treatment groups, respectively, and these increased to 83.6% and 92.5%, respectively, at 12 h. The regularity of the degradation of (+)-gossypol was similar to that of (−)-gossypol. These results showed that (−)-gossypol may be more persistent than (+)-gossypol in plasma, and that the degradation of the gossypol isomers in the rumen is rapid and not enantioselective in cattle.

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[31]Table S1 Regular diets fed on the respective farms, as well as the average daily feed intake and the respective average daily milk yield (mean±SE, n=10)