Method of enhancing an ornithine-urea cycle in ruminant gut tissues to detoxify ammonia and increase local urea recycling to the rumen for microbial protein synthesis

摘要

A method of stimulating or enhancing an ornithine-urea cycle in ruminant gut tissues, which entails either feeding to a ruminant an effective amount of a ruminant feed or feed supplement containing an effective amount of a compound which stimulates activity of one or more enzymes required in the ornithine-urea cycle.