The demand for cultured carp species has grown tremendously during the last decade due
to their high market value. Recently, intensive aquaculture system has been expanding and …

In order to maintain fish health and to improve performance immunostimulants have been
used as dietary additives to improve weight gain, feed efficiency, and/or disease resistance …

Aquaculture and fisheries have provided protein sources for human consumption for a long
time, but diseases have induced declines in product benefits and raised concerns, resulting …

Administration of β-glucans through various routes, including immersion, dietary inclusion,
or injection, have been found to stimulate various facets of immune responses, such as …

Over the past decades, it has become evident that immune-modulation of fish with β-
glucans, using injection, dietary or even immersion routes of administration, has stimulating …

For thousands of years, leaves from the Ginkgo biloba tree have been a common treatment
in Chinese medicine. The present study was conducted to investigate the effects of dietary …

A 56‐day feeding trial was conducted to evaluate the effects of supplemented diets with β‐
glucan (BG) at four levels [0 (D 1), 250 (D 2), 500 (D 3) and 1000 (D 4) mg BG kg− 1] on red …

Growth, plasma biochemical parameters, fish composition, immune parameters, intestinal
histology, and expressions of immune-related genes were examined in hybrid grouper …

Currently, studies reporting the digestibility of carbohydrates, starch and especially non‐
starch polysaccharides (NSP) in fish are scarce. Carbohydrate digestibility in the diet is …

Immune-modulatory effects of β-glucans are generally considered beneficial to fish health.
Despite the frequent application of β-glucans in aquaculture practice, the exact receptors …