Immune responses and resistance to Eimeria acervulina of chickens divergently selected for antibody responses to sheep red blood cells

Poultry Science

Volumn 80, Issue 7, 2001, Pages 894-900

  Parmentier, H K ^a   Abuzeid, S Yousif ^a   De Vries Reilingh, G ^a   Nieuwland, M G B ^a   Graat, E A M ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Chicken; Coccidiosis; Immune response; Selection; Sheep red blood cells

Indexed keywords

CONCANAVALIN A; PARASITE ANTIGEN; PROTOZOON ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BLOOD; CHICKEN; COCCIDIOSIS; EIMERIA; ERYTHROCYTE; FECES; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; INNATE IMMUNITY; KINETICS; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MALE; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITOLOGY; SHEEP;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; CHICKENS; COCCIDIOSIS; CONCANAVALIN A; EIMERIA; ERYTHROCYTES; FECES; IMMUNITY, NATURAL; KINETICS; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MALE; PARASITE EGG COUNT; SELECTION (GENETICS); SHEEP;

EID: 0035403518     PISSN: 00325791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ps/80.7.894     Document Type: Article

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