Dietary Aloe vera supplementation on growth performance, some haemato-biochemical parameters and disease resistance against Streptococcus iniae in tilapia (GIFT)

Fish and Shellfish Immunology

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 504-514

  Gabriel, Ndakalimwe Naftal ^a,c   Qiang, Jun ^a,b   He, Jie ^a   Ma, Xin Yu ^a   Kpundeh, Mathew D ^a   Xu, Pao ^a,b  

^a NANJING AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SOUTH CHINA SEA FISHERIES RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (China)

^c MINISTRY OF FISHERIES AND MARINE RESOURCES   (Namibia)

Author keywords

Bacterium; Challenge; Cichlidae; Feeding; Herbs; Immunity; Oreochromis; Survival

Indexed keywords

ALOE; ALOE VERA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CICHLIDAE; OREOCHROMIS; STREPTOCOCCUS INIAE; TILAPIA;

GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; PLANT EXTRACT;

ALOE; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DISEASE RESISTANCE; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECTS; EATING; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; IMMUNOLOGY; LYMPHOCYTE; NEUTROPHIL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STREPTOCOCCUS; TILAPIA; WEIGHT GAIN;

ALOE; ANIMALS; BLOOD GLUCOSE; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; DISEASE RESISTANCE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; EATING; LYMPHOCYTES; NEUTROPHILS; PLANT EXTRACTS; STREPTOCOCCUS; TILAPIA; WEIGHT GAIN;

EID: 84926197543     PISSN: 10504648     EISSN: 10959947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fsi.2015.03.002     Document Type: Article

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