The effect of stress on host defense system and on lung damage in calves experimentally infected with Pasteurella haemolytica type A1

Zentralblatt für Veterinärmedizin. Reihe A
G J BinkhorstF P Nijkamp

Abstract

This paper describes the influence of stress, immediately before a massive inoculation of a log-phase P. haemolytica A1 culture in brain-heart-infusion broth by fiberoptic bronchoscopy in 5 months old conventional calves. Differences in phagocytic cell function and numbers, lung function and lung tissue damage between stressed and non-stressed, infected calves were studied. Compared with the non-stressed calves before infection, the superoxide generation by blood polymorphonuclear leucocytes of the stressed animals was markedly reduced immediately after a 2 hours stress period, but it recovered within 3 days. The total numbers of phagocytic cells, harvested from lung lavage fluid 3 days after inoculation were twice as high in the non-stressed calves than in the stressed calves. In contrast, no differences in pulmonary lesions and functions were found between stressed or non-stressed calves. The role of several stress factors on infiltration and metabolic response of polymorphonuclear leucocytes in P. haemolytica infections and the effects of bacterial endotoxin and leukotoxin on alveolar and vascular injury are discussed.

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Jun 1, 1990·Zentralblatt für Veterinärmedizin. Reihe B. Journal of veterinary medicine. Series B·T S van den InghG J Binkhorst
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