Inflammatory diseases are a significant burden on global healthcare systems, and tackling
these diseases is a major focus of modern medicine. Key to many inflammatory diseases is …

This chapter describes the current state of knowledge of avian cytokines, concentrating on
the chicken. It describes the different families of cytokines and their receptors, reagents and …

ABSTRACT Interleukin-1 (IL-1), the 'gatekeeper'of inflammation, is the apical cytokine in a
signalling cascade that drives the early response to injury or infection. Expression …

The interleukin-1 gene family encodes a group of related proteins that exhibit a remarkable
pleiotropy in the context of health and disease. The set of indispensable functions they …

Background Age changes in expression of inflammatory, synaptic, and neurotrophic genes
are not well characterized during human brain development and senescence. Knowing …

This study investigated the growth performance and non-specific immunity in sub-adult
turbot fed with graded levels of vitamin E (0, 120, 240, 480 and 960 mg kg− 1) for 15 weeks …

Amphibians occupy a key phylogenetic position in vertebrates and evolution of the immune
system. But, the resources of its transcriptome or genome are still little now. Bombina …

The present study aimed to evaluate the effects of two purified antinutrients, soy saponins
and phytosterols, in an important species for Mediterranean aquaculture. For this purpose …

Clinostomum complanatum is a zoonotic parasite of birds, and its larval form
(metacercariae) may cause disease in fish. The immune response of fish infected by C …

Our knowledge about the inflammasome and the nucleotide-binding domain and leucine-
rich repeat containing receptor (NLR) family has increased enormously during recent years …