Effects of Dietary Bovine Lactoferrin on Growth Performance and Immuno-physiological Responses of Asian Sea Bass (Lates calcarifer) Fingerlings

Impact of lactoferrin supplementation on oxidative stress, gene expression and immunity dysfunction induced by Aeromonas veronii in Nile tilapia ( Oreochromis niloticus )

“…Dietary immunostimulants are used as alternative treatments for antibiotics since they have been reported to control pathogens by activating the immune system of farmed aquatic animals (El-Ashram & El-Boshy, 2008;Sakai et al, 1995;Wang et al, 2017). Many immunostimulants have been inspected in fish, and these include killed pathogens and their products, fungal β-glucans, chitin, unidentified animal extracts, synthetic chemicals and plant molecules (Elumalaia et al, 2020;Esmaeili et al, 2019;Morshedi et al, 2021;Nath et al, 2018;Rashidian et al, 2019;Vallejos-Vidal et al, 2016;Van Doan, Hoseinifar, Srigarm, et al, 2019;Vazirzadeh et al, 2020). Lactoferrin (LF) is an 80-kDa iron-binding glycoprotein that is thoroughly related to the plasma iron-transport protein, transferrin and consists of a single peptide chain with two globular lobes, each containing one iron-binding site.…”

The potential role of medicinal mushrooms as prebiotics in aquaculture: A review

“…Therefore, naturally derived biological compounds have gained much attention to overcome the abovementioned challenges. [81][82][83][84][85][86] In particular, many plants and mushroom-derived compounds have been used as a natural immunostimulant in aquaculture and animal nutrition. 87,88…”

“…However, this could lead to the biomagnification of antibiotics from cultivable organisms to humans through the food chain. Therefore, naturally derived biological compounds have gained much attention to overcome the abovementioned challenges 81–86 . In particular, many plants and mushroom‐derived compounds have been used as a natural immunostimulant in aquaculture and animal nutrition 87,88 …”

The effects of probiotics‐supplemented diets on Asian sea bass ( Lates calcarifer ): Growth performance, microbial flora, digestive enzymes activity, serum biochemical and non‐specific immune indices

“…The species is widely cultivated in many regions such as Australia, Thailand and Indonesia and is a commercial species in the Southeast Asian aquaculture industry. It is a suitable cultured euryhaline species because of different causes such as the adaptive capacity to salinity, rapid growth rate, reproduction in captivity, wide physiological tolerances and proper product prices in the market (Aalamifar et al, 2019; Hassan et al, 2021; Mohammadi et al, 2021; Morshedi et al, 2021). In recent years, the cultivation of this species is expanding in the south of Iran.…”