Exploration of stress-induced immunosuppression in chickens reveals both stress-resistant and stress-susceptible antigen responses

Veterinary Immunology and Immunopathology

Volumn 95, Issue 3-4, 2003, Pages 91-101

  El Lethey, Heba ^a,c   Huber Eicher, Beat ^b   Jungi, Thomas W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b SWISS FEDERAL VETERINARY OFFICE   (Switzerland)

^c CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Chicken; Corticosterone; Feather pecking; Immune response, cellular; Immune response, humoral; Stress

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; PHYTOHEMAGGLUTININ; TETANUS TOXOID; TUBERCULIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; BIRD; BODY WEIGHT; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CHICKEN; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; EGG PRODUCTION; FEEDING; FEMALE; FORAGING; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; LYMPHOCYTE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; SHEEP ERYTHROCYTE; SKIN INFLAMMATION; STRESS; TONIC IMMOBILITY; WEIGHT GAIN;

AVES; GALLUS GALLUS; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 0042235654     PISSN: 01652427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-2427(02)00308-2     Document Type: Article

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