Inhalt: | High producing farm animals are permanently challenged by a variety of factors: lack of proper nutrition (deficit/surplus), housing systems, infections and stress. The incidence, course and outcome of production diseases are changing continuously. Therefore new information on prevention, diagnosis and treatment of production diseases is needed. These problems are complicated by the discussion of animal welfare, the rapid changes in agricultural production and the economics of production. The following key topics are handled: Fatty liver in dairy cows Alternatives to growth-promoting antibiotics Chronic inflammation and animal production Animal behavior and welfare in intensive production systems Epidemiology of production diseases New techniques in immunoprophylaxis Nutrition-immunology and production-immunology relationships Phosphorus nutrition: animal health and environmental concerns Application of genomics to production disease Role of specific fatty acids in animal health, reproduction, and performance Trace mineral nutrition and metabolism Subclinical rumen acidosis This book is essential to scientists, veterinarians and others interested in animal production. Intro -- Introduction -- The History and Influence of the ICPD -- Table of contents -- Session A. Transition cow biology and management -- Advances in transition cow biology: new frontiers in production diseases -- Research priorities from a producer's point of view -- Metabolic profiling to assess health status of transition dairy cows -- A consideration about the energy supply in peripartum of dairy cows on the basis of change in plasma free amino acid concentration -- Metabolic predictors of displaced abomasum in transition dairy cows -- Evaluation of a rapid test for NEFA in bovine serum -- Association of rump fat thickness and plasma NEFA concentration with postpartum metabolic diseases in Holstein cows -- Effect of pre-partum feeding intensity on postpartum energy status of Estonian Holstein cows -- Using a pooled sample technique for herd metabolic profile screening -- Session B. Metabolic effects of immune mediators -- Metabolic effects of immune mediators -- The effect of bovine respiratory disease on carcass traits -- Does calf health during the feedlot period affect gain and carcass traits? -- Effects of dexamethasone on mRNA levels and binding sites of hepatic β-adrenergic receptors in neonatal calves and dependence on colostrum feeding -- Pathogenesis of avian growth plate dyschondroplasia -- Concentrations of haptoglobin and fibrinogen during the first ten days after calving in dairy cows with acute endometritis -- Extracellular pH alters innate immunity by decreasing the production of reactive oxygen and nitrogen species, but enhancing phagocytosis in bovine neutrophils and monocytes -- High nitrite/nitrate status in neonatal calves is associated with increased plasma levels of S-nitrosoalbumin and other S-nitrosothiols. |
