Impact of cold stress on blood biochemical and immune status in male and female vanaraja chickens

Aarif, Ovais; Shergojry, Shahid Ahmad; Dar, S. A.; Khan, Nazam; Mir, Nazir Ahmad; Sheikh, Aasif Ahmad

doi:10.5958/j.0976-0555.48.2.030

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“…Total protein, albumin and globulin concentration were significantly (p<0.05) higher in female in both season. The total protein level inthis study was similar to the finding of former study [13]. Similar to our result, increased total protein in female was observed in Aseel chickens [7], Nigerian local chicken [14], and Indigenous chickens [2].…”

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Sex-related differences in hemato-biochemical indices of adult Vanaraja chickens during summer and winter seasons

Panigrahy¹,

Behera²,

Mohapatra³

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Aim:The objective of this study was to evaluate the changes in hemato-biochemical indices in male and female Vanaraja chickens under tropical environment during summer and winter season.Materials and Methods:A total of 120 day-old sexed Vanaraja chicks were selected as experimental chickens and distributed equally in two groups having 60 female and 60 male chickens in each group, respectively. The experiment was continued for 8 weeks (56 days) and both male and female chickens were slaughtered by cervical dislocation method. All parameters were estimated at the end of the experiment in both seasons.Results:Male had higher blood glucose, Ca and P level. Blood glucose level significantly (p<0.05) reduced in summer. Female had higher total protein, albumin, globulin, and albumin/globulin ratio. Alanine aminotransferase and aspartate aminotransferase enzyme concentration were significantly (p<0.05) higher in summer. Total erythrocyte count, total leukocyte count, hemoglobin (Hb), Hb/lymphocyte ratio, and packed cell volume were significantly (p<0.05) higher in males. Mean corpuscular volume and mean corpuscular Hb were significantly (p<0.05) higher in females.Conclusion:Sex of chickens had a significant (p<0.05) effect on different parameters whereas season had nonsignificant (p>0.05) effect in most of the observed parameters. Hence, Vanaraja chickens are adaptable to local tropical climate and can be reared efficiently as backyard poultry.

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Sex-related differences in hemato-biochemical indices of adult Vanaraja chickens during summer and winter seasons

Panigrahy¹,

Behera²,

Mohapatra³

et al. 2017

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“…Rectal temperature is considered a good indicator of core body temperature because of its close proximity to the abdominal cavity and longer equilibrium period [ 15 ]. The present study shows that prenatal cold stress induced a decrease in prenatal rats’ body temperature and induced an increase in the food intake of gravid rats, without body weight gain (Figure 1C ) and the fetus weights were not proportional to the feed intake (Figure 6B ).…”

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Impact of prenatal cold stress on placental physiology, inflammatory response, and apoptosis in rats

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Prenatal cold stress is one of the earliest factors affecting mammalian health, and is associated with neonatal growth retardation and immune dysfunction, thus increasing disease susceptibility. The mechanisms underlying these observations remain unclear; hence, the objective of this study was to elucidate placental responses to cold stress. 60 maternal rats were randomly allocated to either stressed (n = 30) or non-stressed (control, n = 30) treatment conditions and 30 pubs (n=15) were used for the pups analysis. We found that maternal exposure to cold stress resulted in decreased body temperature, increased food intake without body weight gain, and a high level of plasma corticosterone (CORT) between gestational day (GD) 14 and GD21. In addition, gestation cold stress induced the placental expression of heat shock protein 70 (HSP70), IκBα, glucocorticoid receptor (GR), mineralocorticoid receptor (MR), 11β-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase 2 (11β-HSD2), interferon (IFN) regulatory factor 3 (IRF3), Caspase-3 proteins and altered the ratio of B-cell lymphoma-extra large (Bcl-xL) to Bcl-associated x (Bax) proteins on gestational GD15, GD17, GD19, and GD21, also resulted in the production of interleukin (IL)-1β. Next, gestational cold stress provoked a decrease in plasma GH levels of 21-day-old offspring, and the body weights of offspring were have no differences from postnatal day (PD) 1–21. Taken together, our results indicate that gestational cold stress induces placental apoptosis and the activation of NF-kB via HSP70/TLR4/NF-κB signaling pathways in the placenta, these changes may affect placental function and fetus development.

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“…Previous studies have suggested the variable effect of CS on the corticosterone and cortisol ranging from an increase (Arif et al, 2013;Borsoi et al, 2015) decrease (Hangalapura et al, 2004) and no effect at all (Mills et al,1997). Similarly, findings from the various studies regarding the effects of the CS on the thyroid hormones (T3 and T4) are also inconsistent (Hangalapura et al, 2004;Blahova et al, 2007, Aarif et al,2013Bahadoran and Hassazadeh, 2010). Virtually all the animal or human studies involving any kind of stress agree that it activates the HPA and HPT axis with a change in hormonal dynamics.…”

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“…However, when environmental temperature touches the lower limit of TCZ i.e. 18°C, broiler suffers from cold stress (CS) (Aarif et al, 2013). Cold-exposed broilers typically exhibit poor growth performance inspite of an increased feed consumption (Ipek and Sahan, 2006).…”

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“…Apart from production losses, exposure to cold also results in impairment of various physical activities, permanent tissue damage and ultimately death especially in young chicks (Zhang et al, 2011). Exposure to the CS activates hypothalamic-pituitary-thyroid axis (HPT) of the bird and increases corticosterone and cortisol (Aarif et al, 2013;Slota et al, 2015). Growing body of evidence suggest that the corticosterone is a common link between stress, immunosuppression and infections in animals (Borsoi et al, 2015).…”

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GROWTH PERFORMANCE, HORMONAL DYNAMICS AND INTESTINAL MICROARCHITECTURE IN BROILERS FED Β-Galacto-Oligosaccharides DURING CYCLIC COLD STRESS

2020

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Day-old chicks (n=125) in 5 groups were raised under standard management till 21 st day. From 22 nd-35 th day, control (TN) group received 26°C whereas four groups were exposed to cyclic cold stress (CS) (15°C±2°C for 8 hours/day). The COLD (control cold-stressed) and TN groups received corn-based diet (CBD) whereas CS+0.1%β-GOS, CS+0.2%β-GOS and CS+0.5%β-GOS groups, received CBD supplemented with β-GOS (0.1%, 0.2% and 0.5%, respectively). Results demonstrated that cold-exposed birds were presented with poor feed efficiency (FE), reduced body weights (BW), relative weights (RW) of ceca, intestinal villus surface area (VSA) and duodenal intraepithelial lymphocyte count (IELs) compared with TN group. COLD group also had higher serum cortisol and triiodothyronine, RW of heart and liver and acidic goblet cells (AGCs) in small intestine when compared with TN group. Dietary supplementation of β-GOS (0.5%) improved FE, RW of ceca and duodenal AGCs whereas reduced serum cortisol and jejunal IELs when compared with COLD group. Moreover, all dietary inclusions of β-GOS (0.1%, 0.2% and 0.5%) also enhanced intestinal VSA and jejunal AGCs when compared with COLD group. In conclusion, dietary β-GOS helped to improve growth performance and serum cortisol along with modulating the intestinal microarchitecture and acidic mucin production in broilers during CS.

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Impact of cold stress on blood biochemical and immune status in male and female vanaraja chickens

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Sex-related differences in hemato-biochemical indices of adult Vanaraja chickens during summer and winter seasons

Sex-related differences in hemato-biochemical indices of adult Vanaraja chickens during summer and winter seasons

Impact of prenatal cold stress on placental physiology, inflammatory response, and apoptosis in rats

GROWTH PERFORMANCE, HORMONAL DYNAMICS AND INTESTINAL MICROARCHITECTURE IN BROILERS FED Β-Galacto-Oligosaccharides DURING CYCLIC COLD STRESS

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