Intense flight and endotoxin injection elicit similar effects on leukocyte distributions but dissimilar effects on plasma-based immunological indices in pigeons

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 215, Issue 21, 2012, Pages 3734-3741

  Matson, Kevin D ^a   Horrocks, Nicholas P C ^a   Tieleman, B Irene ^a   Haase, Eberhard ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Birds; Columbiformes; Flight; Immunology; Inflammation; Leukocytes

Indexed keywords

ENDOTOXIN; HETEROPHILE ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BIRD DISEASE; BLOOD; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; EOSINOPHIL; FEMALE; FLYING; IMMUNOLOGY; INFLAMMATION; LEUKOCYTE; LYMPHOCYTE; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MALE; MONOCYTE; NEUTROPHIL; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; PIGEONS AND DOVES; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, HETEROPHILE; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; BIRD DISEASES; COLUMBIDAE; ENDOTOXINS; EOSINOPHILS; FEMALE; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; IMMUNITY, CELLULAR; INFLAMMATION; LEUKOCYTES; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; LYMPHOCYTES; MALE; MONOCYTES; NEUTROPHILS; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84867559358     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.072264     Document Type: Article

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