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The PHA Test Reflects Acquired T-Cell Mediated Immunocompetence in Birds [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2008 cological immunology requires techniques to reliably measure immunocompetence in wild vertebrates. The PHA-skin test, involving subcutaneous injection of a mitogen (phytohemagglutinin, PHA) and measurement of subsequent swelling as a surrogate of T-cell ...
Guillermo Blanco +2 more
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Immune challenge affects reproductive behaviour in the guppy (Poecilia reticulata)
Royal Society Open Science, 2023 Immunocompetence and reproduction are among the most important determinants of fitness. However, energetic and metabolic constraints create conflict between these two life-history traits.
Stella A. Encel +3 more
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Poultry Science, 2023 : Growth and response to Escherichia coli lipopolysaccharide (LPS) challenge in Lohmann LSL-Lite pullets when fed a source of omega-3 fatty acids (n-3 FA) and yeast bioactives (YB) from hatch through to 16 wk of age (woa) were investigated.
Junhyung Lee +2 more
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Allergy to Fungi in Veterinary Medicine: Alternaria, Dermatophytes and Malassezia Pay the Bill!
Journal of Fungi, 2022 The fungal kingdom comprises ubiquitous forms of life with 1.5 billion years, mostly phytopathogenic and commensals for humans and animals. However, in the presence of immune disorders, fungi may cause disease by intoxicating, infecting or sensitizing ...
Luís Miguel Lourenço Martins
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Risk factors for respiratory illness in a community of wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2018 Respiratory illnesses have caused significant mortality in African great ape populations. While much effort has been given to identifying the responsible pathogens, little is known about the factors that influence disease transmission or individual ...
Melissa Emery Thompson +8 more
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Comparison of complement system activity amongst wild and domestic animals
Acta Herpetologica, 2020 Multiple mechanisms have evolved for the defensive recognition of foreign components, such as microorganisms. The majority of immunological studies with vertebrates have been focused on endothermic species, and relatively little attention has been ...
Maria S. Moleón +3 more
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Viruses, 2020 Torque teno virus (TTV) has been proposed as a surrogate biomarker of T-cell function in allogeneic–haematopoietic–stem-cell transplantation (allo-HSCT). Conflicting data exists regarding the value of TTV to assess the degree of immunosuppression.
William Mouton +14 more
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Immunocompetence index selection of broiler chicken lines for disease resistance and their impact on survival rate [PDF]
Veterinary World, 2013 Aim: This study was aimed to develop the disease resistance broiler chicken lines over two generations (G0 , G1 and G2 ) of selection for immunocompetence (IC) index by targeting all the facets of immune response traits viz., humoral response (HR) to ...
Sanjeev Kumar, G. K. Sivaraman
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Frontiers in Immunology, 2022 Induction of immunological tolerance has been the holy grail of transplantation immunology for decades. The only successful approach to achieve it in patients has been a combined kidney and hematopoietic stem cell transplantation from an HLA-matched or ...
Thomas Fehr +17 more
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Czech Journal of Animal Science, 2019 Major genes could be introgressed into laying hens to attenuate heat stress. However, under cold and/or moderate ambient temperature, these genes might possess different behaviour.
Moataz Fathi +5 more
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