title: [Digestive utilization of purified cellulose in the rainbow trout (Salmo gairdneri) and the common carp (Cyprinus carpio)].
abstract: A semi-purified diet containing 22 p. 100 of a wood cellulose extract without lignin but still containing 22 p. 100 of hemicelluloses was distributed for one month to rainbow trout and common carp reared at 17 and 20 degrees C, respectively. The digestibility of the main dietary constituents was determined by an indirect method using chrome oxide as an inert tracer. The feces were recovered by a continuous automatic collector which rapidly removed them from the water, minimizing alteration by leaching. The cellulose content was estimated by the Weende (crude fiber) and the Van Soest (neutral detergent fiber and acid detergent fiber) methods. The digestibility coefficients obtained for trout as well as for carp indicate that cellulose and hemicelluloses were not digested. In both species, volatile fatty acid concentration in the different segments of the digestive tract was low (less than 10 mM/l). These results lead us to suggest that trout and carp cannot degrade purified cellulose.
mesh_terms: D000821:Animal Feed; D000818:Animals; D002347:Carps / Q000378:metabolism*; D002482:Cellulose / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000378:metabolism*; D003530:Cyprinidae / Q000378:metabolism*; D004063:Digestion; D005243:Feces / Q000032:analysis; D012487:Salmonidae / Q000378:metabolism*; D014337:Trout / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D002482:Cellulose
vernacular_title: Etude de l'utilisation digestive d'une cellulose purifiée chez la truite arc-en-ciel (Salmo gairdneri) et la carpe commune (Cyprinus carpio).