Medicinal plants have been known as immunostimulants for thousands of years. The
application of medicinal plants as natural and innocuous compounds has potential in …

All metazoans possess innate immune defence system whereas parameters of the adaptive
immune system make their first appearance in the gnathostomata, the jawed vertebrates …

This book puts emphasis on the isolation, taxonomy, diagnosis (phenotypic, serology and
molecular biology), epizootiology, pathogenicity mechanisms, and methods of disease …

Over the last three decades, the causative agent of viral encephalopathy and retinopathy
(VER) disease has become a serious problem of marine finfish aquaculture, and more …

The effect of two Chinese medicinal herbs (Astragalus membranaceus and Lonicera
japonica) and boron on non-specific immune response of Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) …

This work investigated the potential immunomodulatory and growth-promoting effects of
Astragalus polysaccharides (APS) in Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus). The dietary …

Bacterial lipopolysaccharides (LPS), also termed endotoxins, considered to be a major
virulence factor, are responsible for the lethal effects and clinical manifestations of diseases …

Maternal immunity is of paramount importance for protection of young ones at early stage of
life since the immune factors of an immunocompetent female are transferred transplacentally …

Three different immunoglobulin (Ig) isotypes can be found in teleost fish, IgM, IgD, and the
teleost-specific IgT. IgM is considered to have a systemic activity, and IgT is attributed a …

A 45‐days feeding trial was conducted to study the immunomodulatory effect and interferon
gamma gene expression of dietary fucoidan rich seaweed extract (FRSE) from Sargassum …