Maternal stress during late gestation has moderate but long-lasting effects on the immune system of the piglets

Veterinary Immunology and Immunopathology

Volumn 131, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 17-24

  Couret, David ^a,b   Jamin, Agnès ^a,b,c   Kuntz Simon, Gaëlle ^c   Prunier, Armelle ^a,b   Merlot, Elodie ^a,b  

^a CEMAGREF   (France)

^b AGROCAMPUS OUEST   (France)

^c Healthy Pigs Production and Experimentation Section   (France)

Author keywords

Cortisol; IgG; Leukocyte numbers; Lymphocyte proliferation; Pig; Prenatal stress

Indexed keywords

HAPTOGLOBIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ADRENAL GLAND; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CD4 CD8 RATIO; COLOSTRUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; FEMALE; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNOGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; IMMUNOREGULATION; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; MALE; MATERNAL STRESS; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; ORGAN WEIGHT; PIGLET; PRENATAL STRESS; SOCIAL STRESS;

ANIMALS; COLOSTRUM; FEMALE; HYDROCORTISONE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; ORGAN SIZE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; SALIVA; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SWINE; T-LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA;

SUIDAE;

EID: 68549136751     PISSN: 01652427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetimm.2009.03.003     Document Type: Article

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