Dr Cornelia Metges is head of the Research Unit Nutritional Physiology at the Research Institute for the Biology of Farm Animals in Dummerstorf, Germany (FBN Dummerstorf) and Dr. Harald Hammon is deputy head.

Publications:

• Duske K, Langhof A-K, Nürnberg K, Nürnberg G, Bellmann O, Seyfert M, Hammon HM, Metges CC. Metabolism and lactation performance in dairy cows fed a diet containing rumen-protected fat during the last twelve weeks of gestation. J Dairy Sci. in press, 2009. doi:10.3168/jds.2008-1543
• Hammon, HM, Metges, CC, Junghans P, Becker F, Bellmann O, Schneider F, Nürnberg G, Dubreuil P, Lapierre, H. Metabolic changes and net portal flux in dairy cows fed a ration containing rumen-protected fat as compared to a control diet. J. Dairy Sci. 91:208-217, 2008.
• Hammon HM, Stürmer G, Schneider F, Tuchscherer A, Blum H, Engelhard T, Genzel A, Staufenbiel R, Kanitz W. Performance and metabolic and endocrine changes with emphasis on glucose metabolism in high-yielding dairy cows with high and low fat content in liver after calving. J. Dairy Sci., in press, 2009.
• Kuhla S, Rudolph PE, Albrecht D, Schoenhusen U, Zitnan R, Tomek W, Huber K, Voigt J, Metges CC. A milk diet partly containing soy protein does not change growth but regulates jejunal proteins in young goats. J Dairy Sci. 90(9):4334-45, 2007.
• Kuhla B, Albrecht D, Kuhla S, Metges CC. Proteome analysis of fatty liver in feed deprived dairy cows reveals interaction of fuel sensing, calcium, fatty acid and glycogen metabolism. Physiol Genomics. 2009 Feb 24. [Epub ahead of print]
• Metges CC, Petzke KJ, Backes G, Hennig U, Elsner A, Derno M, Junghans P, Nürnberg G. Response to lysine in a wheat gluten diet in adult minipigs after short- and long-term dietary adaptation as assessed with an indicator amino acid oxidation and balance technique. J Anim Sci 83, 833-841, 2005.