1. The Effect of Starvation on the Immune Response of Chickens
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B. Ben-Nathan, N. Drabkin, and D. Heller
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Starvation ,medicine.medical_specialty ,General Immunology and Microbiology ,Spleen ,Mononuclear phagocyte system ,Biology ,biology.organism_classification ,Hemagglutinating antibody ,Microbiology ,Titer ,Endocrinology ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,Immune system ,Food Animals ,Internal medicine ,medicine ,Animal Science and Zoology ,medicine.symptom ,Clearance rate ,Bacteria - Abstract
SUMMARY The effect of food and water deprivation on the number of antibody-producing spleen cells and on the rate of clearance of bacteria by the reticuloendothelial system was studied in 5-week-old cross-bred (White Leghorn X Rhode Island Red) chickens. Fortyeight hours of deprivation of food and water resulted in decreased hemagglutinating antibody titer and decreased antibody-producing cells in the spleens of chickens immunized with sheep red blood cells. Deprivation of food and water also slowed bacteria clearance rate from the circulation.
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- 1981
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