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Wednesday, May 25 • 09:00 - 10:00
The physiological effects of excessive heat load and nutritional strategies to counter them

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Cattle suffering from heat stress have decreased feed intake, hypoglycaemia, decreased fat mobilisation (even with hypoglycaemia), and increased BUN. Peripheral vasodilation also contributes to a loss of GIT integrity which is thought to stimulate an inflammatory cascade driven by lipopolysaccharide and reinforced by leptin which severely exacerbates the chronic metabolic effects. Our developing understanding of the physiological pathways of heat stress allows us to make nutritional interventions to reduce its clinical severity and production effects
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Paul Cusack

Principal, Australian Livestock Production Services
Veterinarian, ruminant nutritionist and beef producer. Science and Veterinary Science degrees from Sydney University, Masters and PhD from Queensland University, and a fellow of the Australian College of Veterinary Scientists in Ruminant Nutrition. Adjunct Professor with the Veterinary... Read More →

Wednesday May 25, 2016 09:00 - 10:00 ACST
Room L3 Adelaide Convention Centre
  Room L3

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