Chapter 1:
Nutrition and Metabolism: Foundations for Animal Growth, Development, Reproduction, and Health
Guoyao Wu
Chapter 2:
Insights into the Regulation of Implantation and Placentation in Humans, Rodents, Sheep, and Pigs
Claire Stenhouse, Heewon Seo, Guoyao Wu, Gregory A. Johnson, and Fuller W. Bazer
Chapter 3:
A Role for Fructose Metabolism in Development of Sheep and Pig Conceptuses
Robyn M. Moses, Avery C. Kramer, Heewon Seo, Guoyao Wu, Gregory A. Johnson, and Fuller W. Bazer
Chapter 4:
Nutritional Regulation of Embryonic Survival, Growth and Development Lawrence P. Reynolds, Kyle J. McLean, Kacie L. McCarthy, Wellison J.S. Diniz, Ana Clara B. Menezes, J. Chris Forcherio, Ronald R. Scott, Alison K. Ward, Carl R. Dahlen, and Joel S. Caton
Chapter 5:
Phosphate, Calcium, and Vitamin D: Key Regulators of Fetal and Placental Development in Mammals
Claire Stenhouse, Larry J. Suva, Dana Gaddy, Guoyao Wu, and Fuller W. Bazer
Chapter 6:
Nutritional and Physiological Regulation of Water Transport in the Conceptus
Cui Zhu, Zongyong Jiang, Gregory A. Johnson, Fuller W. Bazer, and Guoyao Wu
Chapter 7:
Amino Acids in Microbial Metabolism and Function
Zhaolai Dai, Zhenlong Wu, Weiyun Zhu, and Guoyao Wu
Chapter 8:
Potential Replacements for Antibiotic Growth Promoters in Poultry: Interactions at the Gut Level and their Impact on Host Immunity
Christina L. Swaggerty, Cristiano Bortoluzzi, Annah Lee, Cinthia Eyng, Gabriela Dal Pont, and Michael H. Kogut
Chapter 9:
Microbiomes in the Intestine of Developing Pigs: Implications for Nutrition and Health
Chunlong Mu, Yu Pi, Chuanjian Zhang, and Weiyun Zhu
Chapter 10:
L-Arginine Nutrition and Metabolism in Ruminants Guoyao Wu, Fuller W. Bazer, M. Cary Satterfield, Kyler R. Gilbreath, Erin A. Posey, and Yuxiang Sun
Chapter 11:
Hepatic Glucose Metabolism and Its Disorders in Fish
Xinyu Li, Tao Han, Shixuan Zheng, and Guoyao Wu
Chapter 12:
Protein-Sourced Feedstuffs for Aquatic Animals
Sichao Jia, Xinyu Li, Wenliang He, and Guoyao Wu
Chapter 13:
Functional Molecules of Intestinal Mucosal Products in Animal Nutrition and Health
Peng Li and Guoyao Wu
Chapter 14:
Use of Genome Editing Techniques to Produce Transgenic Farm Animals
Alayna N. Hay, Kayla Farrell, Caroline M. Leeth, and Kiho Lee
Chapter 15:
Cows as Bioreactors for the Production of Nutritionally and Biomedically Significant Proteins
Monzani PS, Adona PR, Long SA, and Wheeler MB
Chapter 16:
Use of Agriculturally Important Animals as Models in Biomedical Research
Brandon I. Smith and Kristen E. Govoni
Chapter 17:
Pigs (Sus Scrofa) in Biomedical Research
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