Dietary supplementation with chitin and chitosan on haematology and innate immune response in Epinephelus bruneus against Philasterides dicentrarchi

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 131, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 116-124

  Harikrishnan, Ramasamy ^a   Kim, Ju Sang ^a   Balasundaram, Chellam ^b   Heo, Moon Soo ^a  

^a Jeju National University   (South Korea)

^b BHARATHIDASAN UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Chitin; Chitosan; Epinephelus bruneus; Innate immune parameters

Indexed keywords

ALPHA 2 MACROGLOBULIN; CHITIN; CHITOSAN; HEMOGLOBIN; LYSOZYME; MYELOPEROXIDASE; PROTEINASE INHIBITOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL FOOD; ARTICLE; COMPLEMENT ACTIVATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EPINEPHELUS BRUNEUS; ERYTHROCYTE; FISH; HEMATOLOGY; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; IMMUNOMODULATION; INNATE IMMUNITY; LEUKOCYTE; LYMPHOCYTE; MEAN CORPUSCULAR HEMOGLOBIN; MEAN CORPUSCULAR VOLUME; MONOCYTE; NEUTROPHIL; NONHUMAN; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PHILASTERIDES DICENTRARCHI; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOZOON; RESPIRATORY BURST; THROMBOCYTE;

ALPHA-MACROGLOBULINS; ANIMALS; BASS; BLOOD CELL COUNT; BLOOD PROTEINS; CHITIN; CHITOSAN; CILIOPHORA INFECTIONS; COMPLEMENT SYSTEM PROTEINS; DIET; ERYTHROCYTE INDICES; FISH DISEASES; FISHERIES; HEMOGLOBINS; MACROPHAGES; MURAMIDASE; OLIGOHYMENOPHOREA; PEROXIDASE; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PROTEASE INHIBITORS; RESPIRATORY BURST;

EPINEPHELINAE; EPINEPHELUS BRUNEUS; PHILASTERIDES DICENTRARCHI; PROTOZOA;

EID: 84860277225     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: 10902449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exppara.2012.03.020     Document Type: Article

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