Indirect calorimetry : techniques, computations and applications /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Wageningen :
Wageningen Academic Publishers,
[2015]
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Table of Contents:
- Deriving heat production from gaseous exchange: validity of the approach
- Design of climate respiration chambers, adjustable to the metabolic mass of subjects
- Metabolic measurement techniques: baselining, mathematical correction of water vapour dilution and response correction
- Modelling gas exchange to partition heat production between fasting, thermic effect of feeding and physical activity in farm animals
- Moving from a complete energy balance towards substrate oxidation: use of stable isotopes
- Indirect calorimetry for elucidating dynamics in energy metabolism of farm animals
- Simultaneous measurement of energy expenditure and protein turnover in pigs
- Quantifying physical activity heat in farm animals
- Calorimeters for enteric methane measurements
- The sulphur hexafluoride tracer technique for estimating enteric methane emissions from ruminants
- Indirect calorimetry: assessing animal response to heat and cold stress
- Indirect calorimetry during incubation of hatching eggs
- Conducting indirect calorimetry studies in companion animals
- Computing energy expenditure from indirect calorimetry data: a calculation exercise