Effect boiling barley and order of consumption of concentrate to forage on proxies related to insulin resistance in adult Arabian mares

In this study, effect of boiling barley grain and order of consumption of concentrate to forage on proxies related to insulin resistance in Arabian mares were studied using the minimal model of glucose and insulin dynamics. Six mares age 4-10 years, mean body weight 445±34 kg) were fed during four periods of 14-days in a cross-overs experiment. In two feed sequencing, the concentrate part of ration was offered either 30 min. after (F-C) or 30 min. before forage part (C-F). Barley grain was either crushed (crushed) or boiled for 3h in water (boiled). At the end of each period, blood samples were taken from jugular vein four hours after the morning meal. Blood samples were analyzed for insulin and glucose concentrations. Insulin response, insulin sensitivity, response pancreatic beta cells, tissue glucose non-insulin dependent and modified insulin-glucose ratio were calculated based on proxy of the dynamic model. The results showed that feed sequencing had no significant effect on insulin response, the response of beta cells, and modified insulin to glucose ratio (P>0.05). Beta-cell response mIU⁄((〖L.min〗^(-1) ) ) in boiled barley was higher than that in crushed barley (719 vs. 478, P