Development-related nutritional utilization and immune function in mice fed on two different protein sources

Effects of dietary inclusion of peas, chickpeas and faba beans on growth, feed utilization and health of gilthead seabream (Sparus aurata)

“…Immunological studies in fish related to dietary legumes are scarce in pertinent literature. Esparza et al. (1996) found that mice fed diets including non‐processed legumes exhibited immunological responses ascribed to the ANF present in the diets.…”

“…Immunological studies in fish related to dietary legumes are scarce in pertinent literature. Esparza et al (1996) found that mice fed diets including non-processed legumes exhibited immunological responses ascribed to the ANF present in the diets. Solvent extracted soybean meal has been shown to cause immune system disturbances in both salmon (Krogdahl et al 2000) and trout (Burrells et al 1999) being fed either extruded or pelleted diets, respectively.…”

Energy restriction restores the impaired immune response in overweight (cafeteria) rats

“…For in vitro blastogenic response experiments, viable cells (1ϫ10 5 /mL) were placed in a tissue culture plate with or without Concanavalin A (Con A; Sigma Chemical Co., St. Louis, MO) and phytohaemaglutinin (PHA; Sigma Chemical Co.) at 5g/mL and 50g/mL, respectively, as described elsewhere [27,28]. Lipopolysaccharide (LPS; Sigma Chemical Co.) was added to B-lymphocyte cultures at 100 g/mL and preliminary experiments confirmed that these concentrations of lectins were mitogenic for both T and B-lymphocytes from both overweight and control rats.…”

“…The spleens were aseptically removed, gently expressed between glass slides, and resuspended in RPMI 1640 (Invitrogen, Life Technologies, Barcelona, Spain) supplemented with 5% heat-inactivated fetal bovine serum (FBS) (Invitrogen), 2 mmol/L L-glutamine, 25 mmol/L HEPES, 100 U/mL penicillin, and 100 mg/mL streptomycin (Invitrogen, Complete medium) as previously described [27,28]. Cell suspensions were centrifuged and washed twice with RPMI 1640.…”

Επίδραση Της Καταπόνησης (Στρες) Και Της Διατροφής Στα Χαρακτηριστικά Αύξησης Και Υγείας Των Μεσογειακών Εκτρεφόμενων Ειδών Ψαριών

“…Η επίδραση της ενσωμάτωσης σπερμάτων Ψυχανθών στο σιτηρέσιο έχει αποδειχθεί ότι επηρεάζει την ανάπτυξη και το ειδικό ανοσοποιητικό σύστημα τόσο των Θηλαστικών (Lalles, 1993;Esparza et al, 1996) όσο και των ιχθύων (Burrells et al, 1999), προκαλώντας αντιγονική δραστηριότητα, μέσω πολύπλοκων και επί του παρόντος όχι ξεκάθαρων μηχανισμών. (Allech, 2006).…”