Farm Animal Metabolism and Nutrition

CONTRIBUTORS vii

PREFACE ix

PARTI: ABSORPTION ANDMETABOLISM OFNUTRIENTS 1

CHAPTER 1 Amino Acid and Peptide Transport Systems 3

J.C. Matthews

CHAPTER 2 Measurement and Significance of Protein Turnover 25

J.A. Rathmacher

CHAPTER 3 Inter-organ Amino Acid Flux 49

C.J. Seal and D.S. Parker

CHAPTER 4 Phenethanolamine Repartitioning Agents 65

D.E. Moody, D.L. Hancock and D.B. Anderson

CHAPTER 5 Lipid Metabolism 97

J.K. Drackley

CHAPTER 6 Glucose Availability and Associated Metabolism 121

R.W. Russell and S.A. Gahr

CHAPTER 7 Aspects of Cellular Energetics 149

N.S. Jessop

CHAPTER 8 Trace Element Dynamics 161

W.T. Buckley

PARTII: FEEDEVALUATIONMETHODOLOGIES 183

CHAPTER 9 Use of Near Infrared Reflectance Spectroscopy 185

J.B. Reeves III

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