Quantitative aspects of ruminant digestion and metabolism /

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2005.
• Edition: Second edition.
• Subjects: Digestion.; Ruminants.; Ruminants > metabolism.; Rumination.; Metabolism.; Ruminants > physiology.; Animal Nutrition (General); Animal Nutrition (Physiology); Animal Nutrition (Production Responses); Animal Physiology and Biochemistry (Excluding Nutrition); Grasslands and Rangelands.; Forage and Feed Processing.; Feed Composition and Quality.; Mathematics and Statistics.; Animal physiology.; Calorimetry.; Digesta.; Digestibility.; Digestive system.; Digestive tract.; Energy metabolism.; Fatty acids.; Feeds.; Gas production.; Glucose.; Growth.; Lactation.; Mathematical models.; Microbial flora.; Pastures.; Processing.; Protein metabolism.; Rumen.; Rumen digestion.; Rumen flora.; Rumen metabolism.; Rumen microorganisms.; Electronic books.
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This book aims to bring together the quantitative approaches concerned with elucidating mechanisms used in the study of ruminant digestion, metabolism and related areas from different contributing practitioners, experts and scientists. A great deal of research had been carried out on the digestive s...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction / J. Dijkstra, J.M. Forbes and J. France
• Rate and Extent of Digestion / D.R. Mertens
• Digesta Flow / G.J. Faichney
• In Vitro and In Situ Techniques for Estimating Digestibility / S. López
• Particle Dynamics / P.M. Kennedy
• Volatile Fatty Acid Production / J. France and J. Dijkstra
• Nitrogen Transactions in Ruminants / J.V. Nolan and R.C. Dobos
• Rumen Microorganisms and their Interactions / M.K. Theodorou and J. France
• Microbial Energetics / J.B. Russell and H.J. Strobel
• Rumen Function / A. Bannink and S. Tamminga
• Glucose and Short-chain Fatty Acid Metabolism / R.P. Brockman
• Metabolism of the Portal-drained Viscera and Liver / D.B. Lindsay and C.K. Reynolds
• Fat Metabolism and Turnover / D.W. Pethick, G.S. Harper and F.R. Dunshea
• Protein Metabolism and Turnover / D. Attaix, D. Reþmond and I.C. Savary-Auzeloux
• Interactions between Protein and Energy Metabolism / T.C. Wright, J.A. Maas and L.P. Milligan
• Calorimetry / R.E. Agnew and T. Yan
• Metabolic Regulation / R.G. Vernon
• Mineral Metabolism / E. Kebreab and D.M.S.S. Vitti
• Growth / G.K. Murdoch, E.K. Okine, W.T. Dixon, J.D. Nkrumah, J.A. Basarab and R.J. Christopherson
• Pregnancy and Fetal Metabolism / A.W. Bell, C.L. Ferrell and H.C. Freetly
• Lactation : Statistical and Genetic Aspects of Simulating Lactation Data from Individual Cows using a Dynamic, Mechanistic Model of Dairy Cow Metabolism / H.A. Johnson, T.R. Famula and R.L. Baldwin
• Mathematical Modelling of Wool Growth at the Cellular and Whole Animal Level / B.N. Nagorcka and M. Freer
• Voluntary Feed Intake and Diet Selection / J.M. Forbes
• Feed Processing: Effects on Nutrient Degradation and Digestibility / A.F.B. Van der Poel, E. Prestlk̜ken and J.O. Goelema
• Animal Interactions with their Environment : Dairy Cows in Intensive Systems / T. Mottram and N. Prescott
• Pasture Characteristics and Animal Performance / P. Chilibroste, M. Gibb and S. Tamminga
• Integration of Data in Feed Evaluation Systems / J.P. Cant.