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Researchers from Department of Agriculture describe findings in veterinary immunopathology
January 14th, 2009
According to recent research from the United States, "Previous studies using F1 reciprocal crosses and two parental lines of broilers show the sire is instrumental in determining the ill vitro leukocyte function and cytokine/chemokine profile. Since the innate immune response is the primary means young chickens have to protect themselves, we hypothesize utilizing a novel genomics approach to select sires based on an elevated pro-inflammatory cytokine and chemokine profile." "By identifying sires with increased pro-inflammatory cytokine (interleukin [IL]-1 beta and IL-6) and chemokine (CXCLi2 and CCLi2) mRNA expression levels, we expect the progeny will also have...
Source: Vaccine Weekly (2009-01-14)
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