• Dietary nitrate and presence of protozoa increase nitrate and nitrite reduction in the rumen of sheep 

      Villar, Maria Laura; Hegarty, Roger Stephen; Clay, Jonathon William; Smith, Katherine Anne; Godwin, Ian Robert; Nolan, John Vivian (Wiley, 2020-04)
      Nitrate (NO−3) supplementation is an effective methane (CH4) mitigation strategy for ruminants but may produce nitrite (NO−2) toxicity. It has been reported that rumen protozoa have greater ability for NO−3 and NO−2 reduction ...
    • Nitrate and nitrite absorption, recycling and retention in tissues of sheep 

      Villar, Maria Laura; Godwin, Ian Robert; Hegarty, Roger Stephen; Erler, Dirk V.; Farid, Haneih T.; Nolan, John Vivian (Elsevier, 2021-07)
      Dietary nitrate is of increasing interest both for the pharmacological effects of its metabolites as well as its capacity to inhibit methanogenesis in the gut. A sequence of three experiments was conducted to investigate ...