Heat stress impairs performance parameters, induces intestinal injury, and decreases macrophage activity in broiler chickens

Poultry Science

Volumn 89, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1905-1914

  Quinteiro Filho, W M ^a   Ribeiro, A ^a   Ferraz de Paula, V ^a   Pinheiro, M L ^a   Sakai, M ^a   Sa L R M ^a   Ferreira, A J P ^a   Palermo Neto, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Corticosterone; Heat stress; Hypothalamic pituitary adrenal axis; Macrophage; Small intestine

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; GALLUS GALLUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

CORTICOSTERONE;

ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; BIRD DISEASE; BLOOD; BURSA FABRICII; CHICKEN; ENTEROPATHY; HEAT; MALE; METABOLISM; ORGAN SIZE; PERITONEUM MACROPHAGE; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; SPLEEN; THYMUS; VETERINARY;

ANIMALS; BURSA OF FABRICIUS; CHICKENS; CORTICOSTERONE; HOT TEMPERATURE; INTESTINAL DISEASES; MACROPHAGES, PERITONEAL; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; POULTRY DISEASES; SPLEEN; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; THYMUS GLAND;

EID: 77958088803     PISSN: 00325791     EISSN: 15253171     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3382/ps.2010-00812     Document Type: Article

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