Differential splenic cytokine responses to dietary immune modulation by diverse chicken lines

Poultry Science
Sarah B RedmondSusan J Lamont

Abstract

Nutritional modulation of the immune system is an often exploited but poorly characterized process. In chickens and other food production animals, dietary enhancement of the immune response is an attractive alternative to antimicrobial use. A yeast cell wall component, beta-1,3/1,6-glucan, augments the response to disease in poultry and other species; however, the mechanism of action is not clear. Ascorbic acid and corticosterone are better characterized immunomodulators. In chickens, the spleen acts both as reservoir and activation site for leukocytes and, therefore, splenic gene expression reflects systemic immune function. To determine effects of genetic line and dietary immunomodulators, chickens of outbred broiler and inbred Leghorn and Fayoumi lines were fed either a basal diet or an experimental diet containing beta-glucans, ascorbic acid, or corticosterone from 56 to 77 d of age. Spleens were harvested, mRNA was isolated, and expression of interleukin (IL)-4, IL-6, IL-18, macrophage inflammatory protein-1beta, interferon-gamma, and phosphoinositide 3-kinase p110gamma transcripts was measured by quantitative reverse transcription PCR. Effects of diet, genetic line, sex, and diet x genetic line interaction on weight gain ...Continue Reading

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