Impact of housing environment on the immune system in chickens: A review

T Hofmann, SS Schmucker, W Bessei, M Grashorn… - Animals, 2020 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary In poultry production, chickens are confronted with a wide range of
potential stressful conditions including restricted movement, long light phases or poor air …

The contribution of sleep to the neuroendocrine regulation of rhythms in human leukocyte traffic

T Lange, F Luebber, H Grasshoff… - Seminars in …, 2022 - Springer
Twenty-four-hour rhythms in immune parameters and functions are robustly observed
phenomena in biomedicine. Here, we summarize the important role of sleep and associated …

Circadian rhythms in ischaemic heart disease: key aspects for preclinical and translational research: position paper of the ESC working group on cellular biology of the …

S Lecour, BC Du Pré, HE Bøtker… - Cardiovascular …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Circadian rhythms are internal regulatory processes controlled by molecular clocks present
in essentially every mammalian organ that temporally regulate major physiological …

Single housing but not changes in group composition causes stress-related immunomodulations in horses

S Schmucker, V Preisler, I Marr, K Krüger, V Stefanski - PLoS One, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Domestic horses are currently often subject to management practices that can entail social
stressors, which in turn can negatively influence immunocompetence and disease …

Intravenous infusion of cortisol, adrenaline, or noradrenaline alters porcine immune cell numbers and promotes innate over adaptive immune functionality

L Reiske, S Schmucker, B Pfaffinger… - The Journal of …, 2020 - journals.aai.org
Despite the importance of pigs (Sus scrofa domestica) in livestock production and their
increasing role as a model organism for human physiology, knowledge about the porcine …

Effects of repeated social mixing on behavior and blood immune cells of group-housed pregnant sows (Sus scrofa domestica)

C Schalk, B Pfaffinger, S Schmucker, U Weiler… - Livestock Science, 2018 - Elsevier
Commercial housing of sows often involves frequent regrouping (“mixing”) of animals that
poses a potential welfare problem due to social stress. Although mixing is a common …

[HTML][HTML] Rules of thumb to obtain, isolate, and preserve porcine peripheral blood mononuclear cells

I Díaz - Veterinary Immunology and Immunopathology, 2022 - Elsevier
One of the most used biospecimens in immunology are peripheral blood mononuclear cells
(PBMC). PBMC are particularly useful when evaluating immunity through responses of …

Glucocorticoids and catecholamines affect in vitro functionality of porcine blood immune cells

L Reiske, S Schmucker, J Steuber, V Stefanski - Animals, 2019 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary In modern livestock husbandry, animals may face stressful events like
weaning, regrouping, or transportation, all of which can impair animal welfare and health …

Cecal CircRNAs Are Associated With the Response to Salmonella Enterica Serovar Enteritidis Inoculation in the Chicken

L Zheng, L Liu, L Lin, H Tang, X Fan, H Lin… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Circular RNAs (circRNAs) are a class of endogenous noncoding RNA, which is different
from linear RNA. CircRNA is an RNA molecule with a closed loop structure formed by …

The role of peripheral blood eosinophil counts in acute Stanford type A aortic dissection patients

X Qin, Y Gao, Y Jiang, F Zhu, W Xie, X Tang… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Background Acute Stanford-A aortic dissection (AAAD) is a devastating cardiovascular
condition with high mortality, therefore identifying risk prognosis factors is vital for the risk …